Schedule

Depending on how many students are simultaneously enrolled in the ePortfoio tutorial and other individual enrollment capstone options, meeting schedules will vary.

Week 1: (email) Introducing the ePortfolio Tutorial: Share Syllabus, note preliminary assignments, prompt students to begin Artifact Review ahead of Week 2 meeting.

Week 2: Academic Writing and Editing: Reviewing Best Practices. Come to our first meeting having considered options (artifacts and genres) for your ePortfolio.

  • Assignments Due:
    • Academic Writing Reflection 1–post to blog by Sunday 1/22 at midnight: How has your relationship with academic writing evolved over the course of the program? Have you developed research and writing processes that are effective for you? What remains the most difficult aspect of research and writing for you? Where do you feel you have improved most as a professional academic critic and writer?
    • By Sunday 1/22, email your program director a set of artifacts with a prefatory note explaining where each artifact came from (class context) and the logic of your selections / possible genre options you hope to employ (this will be a draft of the portfolio memo, due during week 4).

Week 3: Academic Writing and Editing: Applying Best Practices

  • Readings Due: Hayot and Williams TBA
  • Assignment Due: Rhetorical Analysis Discussion Post Due–post to blog by Sunday 1/29 at midnight. Please explain / unpack one key idea or principle each from Hayot and Williams/Bizup and use that idea to engage a piece of peer-reviewed literature that you’re dealing with in one of your projects. Quote amply so that others involved in the conversation can see these principles in action. The goal here is to reflect on the genre of academic writing—from both a generic and stylistic perspective—noting where certain moves or practices are either exemplified or overlooked.
  • Individual meeting with instructor to discuss ePortfolio artifacts and revision / genre ideas.

Week 4: ePortfolio Memo

  • Assignment Due: ePortfolio Memo: The ePortfolio memo grounds your work over the rest of the semester. In the memo, begin by describing more broadly why you have chosen the artifacts you have chosen for revision and/or adaptation. If there is not a strong sense of thematic unity, you might justify your selection by noting how each challenged you in a new way, introduced you to a new area, or inspired you to explore a certain set of ideas. After this broader introduction, please introduce each artifact under a separate header. First note the course and instructor, then the paper title, then the revision category (e.g. “traditional seminar paper” or “lesson plan” or “podcast” or “broader-audience literary essay.” Then go into more detail on your revision plans for that paper. If this is an academic artifact, you should discuss specific aspects of the project (in terms of both writerly style and genre-based best practices) that you plan to improve, noting, as well, any additional research that will be conducted (note, however ,that this is not a major paper revision, so additional research isn’t required). If you will be exploring genres beyond the seminar paper, describe that genre and how you plan to adapt your project accordingly. Include any additional research you’ve done on this genre as well (e.g. if you are doing a podcast, this requires some research on what makes a great podcast).

Week 5: Individual meeting with program director to discuss ePortfolio Memo

Week 6: Independent writing, research, and consultation 

Week 7: Individual meeting with program director to discuss progress, review artifacts

Week 8: Independent writing, research, and consultation

Week 9: Spring Break

Week 10: Individual meeting with program director to discuss progress, review artifacts. ePortfolio platforms, best practices, and samples provided for discussion

Week 11: Independent writing, research, and consultation

Week 12: Small group peer editing workshop

Week 13: small group peer editing workshop

Week 14: Final individual consultations with lead instructor;

Week 15: ePortfolio presentations

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