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 Guidelines for Final Portfolio

Your final portfolio should be a way of demonstrating to me that, over the course of the semester, you have learned a great deal about writing for new media. What your revised pages should show are that you are not just taking print text and putting it up on the web, but that you are conceptualizing your work in terms of how readers make meaning when reading electronic publications, how good designers present information (in terms of site architecture, UCD, page design, accessibility, typography and graphic appearance, etc.), and how good rhetoricians approach these new audiences and challenges. It counts as 35% of your final grade and should therefore be given the time and consideration such weight deserves.

The works that should be included in your portfolio are

I suggest that you try to capture several iterations or versions of each work in progress--if you are compiling it electronically, your portfolio might contain "folders" for each assignment so that I can see the stages, good and rejected, that each work passed through as it moved to its final form. You may want to scan pages from your notes or sketchbook to show iterations that never made it to electronic form. (There are scanners in the ACC lab, in the library, and in the Instructional Technology Center in Withers.)

As I have said several times, this is not a class in software, nor is it a class in art. Thus, the grade on the portfolio, while it has to take some account of what the final works look like, will be much more heavily weighted toward your demonstration of mastery in applying the rhetorical principles of writing for electronic publication to your own work.


What You Turn In and When

You should turn the portfolio in to me by providing me either with all the materials burned to a CD or by providing me with the URL of the anchor page of their online location no later than 5 pm Tuesday December 8. They will be graded according to the rubric. We will then have a conference in the following week to discuss your final grade in the course. Computers equipped with CD burners can be found in all the campus computer labs.

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