Step One: Consider the following questions
Answer the following questions in 1 or 2 sentences:
- How did this class impact your view of collaboration?
- What collaborative skills did you develop as part of the class?
- What academic task or work product are you most proud of from this semester? why?
- How could this course have better supported your learning interests or goals?
- What is something new that you learned about the job market for English majors in this course?
- What is something new that you learned about skills that English majors bring to the job market in the course?
- (Optional) Do you have an additional feedback, positive or constructive, about the course?
Reflect on the following prompts in 150 words each:
- What different collaboration strategies did you observe or use?
- How do you see writing, design, and/or project management differently after this course?
- How was your perspective on the job market amended or challenged by this course? OR How was your perspective on your future career of interest amended or challenged by this course?
Step Two: Choose Examples
Choose five examples that would best help you prove or ground your answers in Step One. In choosing examples, use at least one of each:
- a hyperlink to one of your WordPress posts
- a source that you collected during your research
- an exchange between you and your peers in Discord or over email
Additional items can be additional versions of a), b), or c), or other artifacts that are important to cite in your examples.
Step Three: Choose a Format
You can compose your reflective as a portfolio in any of the following ways:
- A PDF document that provides the short questions/answers, the reflective prompts, and list of the five examples that you will be using (embed, add image, or highlighted quotes; see “choose examples” above). You will need to cite at least one of the five examples in every prompt, the short answers and the reflective paragraphs. Number your artifacts on your list at the bottom (“Example 1”, “Example 2”, etc.) and cite from those numbers in your writing. You can add additional sources (author/title/hyperlink) into your answers, but all 8 short responses and all 3 reflective sections should cite at least one of your five examples. The document should be uploaded into the appropriate category in the “Assignment” tab as a PDF. Please avoid uploading a Word File, a Pages file, or a shareable document link (because, at the end of the semester, I don’t want to add time spent reaching out to you if I can’t open your file).
- A WordPress post in which you compose answers to the 10 questions posted above. Answers to all of the 7 questions and 3 reflective prompts should be built into the post somewhere, but they need not be in the same order or to the same degree (the 1-2 sentence rule and 150 word reflective post rule need not apply, but I recommend you use it in your prewriting so that you have material to use in building your post). When you are finished, do not “publish” your post. Leave it as a draft, and title it “Reflective Portfolio [Your first name]”.
- A different format that you design and that I approve. Reach out to me as soon as you have an idea about how you’d like to rebuild the assignment, and we can discuss it.
Step Four: Compose
Follow the guidelines in Step Three above to build your reflective portfolio.
Step Five: Submit
Turn in your reflective portfolio in the relevant folder in the Assignment tab in D2L by July 22. If it’s a document, be sure that you submit it as a PDF. If it’s a WordPress post, submit the link to that draft, unpublished post.
