WRIT 3152 | Reflective Portfolio

Step One: Compile the following items

Answer the following questions in 1 or 2 sentences:

1. How did this class impact your view of collaboration?
2. What collaborative skills did you develop as part of the class?
3. What academic task or work product are you most proud of from this semester? why?
4. How could this course have better supported your learning interests or goals?
5. What is one difference between publishing content on a proprietary platform (like facebook, x, or discord) and on an open source platform owned by an individual (like WordPress)?
6. What is something new that you learned about state politics or civic engagement via the course?
7. What is something new that you learned about research (academic or otherwise) via the course?
8. What is something new that you learned about social media via the course?
9. (Optional) Do you have an additional feedback, positive or constructive, about the course?

Reflect on the following prompts in 150 words:

1. What different collaboration strategies did you observe?
2. How do you see writing, design, and/or project management differently after this course?
3. What is your approach to civic engagement and was it 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:

1. a hyperlink to one of our wordpress posts
2. a screenshot of social media interaction (instagram, facebook, discord, or somewhere else)
3. an extended quote (a paragraph or two) from one of the sources that we read for class (and an appropriate citation)

Additional items can be second 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:

1. 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).
2. A WordPress post in which you organize your reflective portfolio like the analysis posts that we have been building for class where your “Examples” are the artifacts. In this model, you will be reorganizing the content from your answers and reflection into the introduction (300 words, +/- 50 words), the annotations (100 words, +/- 50 words), and conclusion (150 words, +/- 50 words). In this model, you would not be sticking to the prompts; you would instead be re-imagining the structure and presenting your experience in the course with an attention to the artifacts. Answers to all of the 8 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]”.
3. 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 May 4. 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 post.