Information on Portfolio Assessment

(Final Exam = 15%)

Your Writing Portfolio on this wiki is your final exam in this course and will be worth 150 points (15% of your grade). Any one item missing from the portfolio will cause the portfolio to be incomplete and will be docked 25 points for each missing or incomplete assessment. Your portfolio must be complete in order for you to receive an accurate grade of your compentency in this course.

Below is a list of the MCCCD official course competencies for the ENG101 First Year Composition course. Our goal this semester is to satisfy these seven competencies. In order to show that you have reached this goal, you will keep an electronic portfolio where you will provide examples of your work that demonstrate your competence. You will also be required to write several personal reflections on your work. What follows are the guidelines for the electronic portfolios.

MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

ENG101 20056-99999 First-Year Composition

1. Analyze specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience, and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications.
2. Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence, and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context.
3. Use appropriate conventions in writing, including consistent voice, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics.
4. Summarize, paraphrase and quote from sources to maintain academic integrity and to develop and support one's own ideas.
5. Use feedback obtained from peer review, instructor comments and/or other resources to revise writing.
6. Assess one's own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other methods.
7. Generate, format, and edit writing using appropriate technologies.
   

Assignments for Assessment:

Click on the Assessment to find out more about the assignment related to this assessment. You may also read about the assignments in Blackboard.

• Assessment #1:
  

• Analyze specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience, and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications.
  
• HOW? Doing a Rhetorical Analysis of a Text (Use Essay #3 Only)

• Assessment #2:
  

• Organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence, and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context.
  
• HOW? Writing an expository essay, either illustration/reflection, comparison/contrast, cause and effect, definition or argumentative. ( Use Essay #1 or #2)
• Self reflection piece (Use Assignments #2 or #4)
  

• Asssessment #3:

• Use appropriate conventions in writing, including consistent voice, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics.

• HOW? Writing an expository essay, either illustration/reflection, comparison/contrast, cause and effect, definition or argumentative. (Use Essay #1 or #2).
• Self Reflection piece. (Use Assignments #2 or #4)
  

• Assessment #4:

• Summarize, paraphrase and quote from sources to maintain academic integrity and to develop and support one's own ideas.
• HOW? Write an argumentative position paper on an issue from the unit theme. Essay is an extended documented essay using either MLA or APA style of documentation. (Use Essay #4 Only)
  

• Assessment #5:

• Use feedback obtained from peer review, instructor comments and/or other resources to revise writing.
• HOW? Peer Review Essay #1, #2 & #3. Rewrite your essays after your group members have reviewed the essay and/or you have met with me for your conference. (Use Essay #1, #2 or #3)
  
• Personal Reflection on the peer review process and rewrite process for your essay. (Use Assignment #5 Only)
  

• Assessment #6:

• Assess one's own writing strengths and identify strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio review, written evaluation, and/or other methods.
• HOW? Final Exam Personal Reflection/Assessment written after all portfolio assessments have been submitted to the wiki. Part of the final exam. Will be assigned and completed in the last week of the semester.
  

• Assessment #7:

• Generate, format, and edit writing using appropriate technologies.
• HOW? Completion of the Wiki Portfolio and peer reviews using Exchange and WetPaint wiki.