For Next Week: Portfolio Guidelines

On Monday/Tuesday, I will hand back your Paper #4 with comments.  Each paper will have the guidelines (below) for your Portfolio attached.  I gave you these during your first paper conference ages ago, but I want to make sure you remember what I expect for the portfolio.  Read the guidelines below and let me know if you have any questions.  

THE COMPOSITION 2 PORTFOLIO

NOTE: You cannot e-mail the portfolio to me.  It must be submitted in hard copy form to my office.  If I do not receive your portfolio by our Final Exam Date, you will get a 0% for the portfolio.  You cannot turn it in late for any reason. 

Your portfolio should have/contain the following:

1.) A simple folder for the three papers—nothing fancy, a manila folder or normal pocket folder will do.  PLEASE do not hole punch the papers or place them into a three-ring binder.  Place them in loosely but please staple each paper together.

2.) Your name and class period and e-mail should be somewhere on the outside of the folder.  Please don’t include an elaborate cover page, just a simple identification on the front so I know it’s yours.  I ask you to include your e-mail address (the one you actually check) so I can e-mail your final results to you after Finals. 

3.) Papers 1-4, Revised.  By “revised” I mean you have read through my comments and tried to incorporate my suggestions to make your paper a ‘second draft’ paper.  If you received an A or an A- on a paper, I consider that a ‘second draft’ paper and you wouldn’t need to revise it.  You may include the previous draft of the paper but are not required to.  I will grade them as brand new papers, so don’t need the original to compare.  That said, if you made a C paper the first time and don’t change it, it will remain a C paper (I’m looking for exactly the same things).

NOTES ON REVISION:

• Don’t simply change a sentence or two and call it a day.  Look carefully at my comments—they often ask you to change an introduction, add more passages from a source, or discuss a quotation in more detail. 
• Make sure you clean up all spelling errors and obvious (sloppy) grammar issues.  Many papers were very sloppy—full of spelling errors that even Spell Check would have caught.  A paper that reads like this could potentially receive an even lower grade.
• Look at the original assignment again (you can find them all on our blog).  Make sure you actually followed the assignment carefully.  Many students got a lower grade on a paper simply because they ignored one of the major components of an assignment. 
• Make sure you cite your sources correctly and have a Works Cited page for each paper.  Check your comments—many of you did not cite your quotations properly (or at all!).  This is an example of a ‘sloppy’ error and must be fixed in your portfolio.
• DUE NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY, MAY 6th BY 5pm