Portfolio Expectations & Process

 

Portfolio Expectations & Process

 

If you complete all of your work and have a passing grade in the course (C or above) at the end of the quarter, you will submit a portfolio to the English Department. This portfolio will affect your final grade in this course.

 

The English Department expects that your portfolio should

·       demonstrate your best work in the class. Consider carefully which essays and assignments you will choose to include.

·       represent the work of a student who is passing EWRT 1AS. If you are not passing the class, you cannot submit a portfolio.

·       Represent your own words, and NOT contain any plagiarism. Plagiarized work cannot pass the portfolio process.

 

This means that your final grade in this course depends on two processes:

1. If you complete all of your work in the class and have a passing grade, you will submit a portfolio of selected writing for review by members of the English Department at the end of the quarter. If these readers agree that your portfolio demonstrates the appropriate skills for a student who has completed this quarter of EWRT 1A, you will pass the class. If your portfolio does not demonstrate the appropriate skills, you will not pass the class.

 

2. If the English Department determines that you should pass, your actual final letter grade (A, B, or C) will be determined by the percentage of points you earned throughout the quarter. For example, if your percentage on your assignments throughout the quarter in this class is 89.4% and you pass the portfolio process, you will receive a B+ in the class. However, if you do not pass the portfolio process, you still cannot pass the class.

 

In order to pass this class with a good grade, you should

• complete all of your work and score as many points as possible during the quarter.
• revise and polish selected essays in order to assemble a strong portfolio at the end of the quarter.

 

My grades on your essays should be a signal of whether you are likely to pass the portfolio process, so you will definitely have multiple warnings if you are in danger. However, you should keep in mind that—ultimately—you will not be able to “make up” for failing essays by earning lots of participation points or homework points. Those points will not affect the assessment of your portfolio, even if they affect your grade. More information will be provided as the quarter progresses.