Your portfolio should contain one in-class essay, one analytical essay, and the second reflective essay.
Reflective Essay
The most important parts of your reflective essay will be the parts about your timed writing and your analytical essay.
The overall structure of your reflective essay should be chronological, but the most important parts of your essay should follow a problem-solution structure.
Reflective Essay
For your timed writing you should have two paragraphs, one paragraph in which you define the problem and one paragraph about how you addressed it.
Reflective Essay
For the early timed writings there were common issues with regard to process and with regard to the writing itself.
Process:
No process (no brainstorm, no outline, no proofreading)
Reflective Essay
For the early timed writings there were common issues with regard to process and with regard to the writing itself.
The following people still need to do the workshop for the first draft of the analytical essay:
Olivia
Gustavo
Doris
Tommy
Download the rubric for the first draft of the analytical essay.
Analytical Essay
Everyone here should have already done at least one revision of the analytical essay.
The next round of revisions will require you to read your own essay (or a partner’s essay) as if you are one of the instructors evaluating the essay.
There is a point on the scoring guide for assessing your writing for an audience.
You will need to make big-picture revisions.
Analytical Essay
Your essay needs to make sense to the people who are evaluating it, or it will not pass.
What knowledge about your essay do you have that the evaluators will not have?
