Portfolio Introduction

This is the final document you will write for our class, and it should be a well-written, well-reasoned, and well-supported testament to the good work you have done all semester.

Think of this portfolio introduction as a kind of book introduction, a chance to preview what's in the rest of your portfolio for your readers, a chance to direct readers to the important things you want them to notice about your work, a chance to illustrate what you have learned and done this semester.

Your introduction should be 3-5 pages (double-spaced). If you cite any sources in your introduction, you should cite those sources in APA style, but you need not cite anyone in this introduction. Your introduction should answer the following questions for readers:

1. What is the most important lesson you learned about writing and/or research in this class? Which documents in your portfolio illustrate best that you learned that lesson? Be specific & cite specific examples from your work.
2. Which lesson(s) about writing and/or research will you be able to apply to the writing you do for your major, for your career, or for your general education or elective courses?
3. What did you learn this semester about academic writing; critical reading; summarizing and responding to sources; incorporating source material into your academic writing; incorporating peer and instructor feedback into your revisions; and composing journalistic, academic, and new media texts.
4. In what ways did you help your classmates with the composition of their papers in this class? Be specific and cite/link to specific examples of this in your peer reviews for others.
5. Coming into this class, what did you expect to learn about academic writing and now that you are leaving, what have you learned (anything?)?
6. Which work in this portfolio are you most proud of and why?
7. What should readers of your portfolio know about your work, what should they see in or understand about the work you did this semester?

After your introduction addresses these questions, write a short (25-50 word) summary/abstract for each of your major projects (internet literacy narrative, annotated bibliography, academic composition, new media project). If you have revised any of these projects for the portfolio, include a short explanation of the revisions you made to this work with your summary of that work. So, your summaries may look something like this on the page.

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