Portfolio

To assess its teaching effectiveness as mandated by accreditation agencies, the Department of English requires a portfolio of your work. We will devote time to crafting an individual portfolio that you believe best represents the work you have undertaken during your time at UNG.

A copy of your portfolio is due on the day of the final exam. Upload it to the appropriate D2L assignments folder.

The portfolio will include the following items:

• Title page, which will include your name, my name, and semester.
• Table of contents.
• Reflective cover letter of no more than 1.5 single-spaced and fully justified pages addressed to the Department of English Faculty. Discuss the purpose of your portfolio, why you chose the items you submitted, what the selected items say about you as a reader/writer and about your development as a reader/writer of English studies, and your future plans.
• An employment resume geared toward a specific job or a CV.
• A resume of your English Studies' classes. In other words, a list of classes you took in language, literature, writing, or a closely related field at UNG or at other institutes of higher education. Be sure to include semester and instructor of record.
• At least one piece of writing that predates your collegiate career or comes from your first year as a college student.
• At least one paper that comes from Advanced Composition (ENGL 3130), Technical and Professional Writing (ENGL 3160), Linguistics (ENGL 3020), Grammar (ENGL 3050), or History of the English Language (ENGL 3010) classes. 
• At least one paper that comes from your upper-division English class, preferably a class closely connected to Writing & Publication such as Introduction to Rhetorical Theory (ENGL 3120).
• Your English 4880 paper.

Feel free to revise any paper, excluding the pre-college or first-year paper. Also, be sure the papers are not marked or graded by previous readers.

Upload a complete portfolio to the D2L assignment folder labeled "Portfolio."

I, of course, grade your individual portfolios, but the department uses your portfolio to assess how well we--the department--are preparing our graduates. To undertake this departmental assessment, we use rubrics: AC = all concentrations; WP = Writing & Pub. Click on the titles below to view the rubric.

• AC1: style and grammar outcome, so any assignment will do.
• AC2: a paper that includesresearch
• WP1: a rhetorical analysis paper, where the student analyzes another work's use of rhetorical elements.
• WP2: theory and practice of writing -- while the other papers likely will be revised versions of papers from other classes, this one will likely need to be an assignment completed in the capstone course.
• WP3: a persuasive or argumentative paper using rhetorical strategies.

To speed the assessment process and to grant you some agency in the process, I ask that you mark one paper for each of these rubrics. Some papers could be marked twice; for example, AC1 and WP3 for your ENGL 3120 paper.

Mark your paper in bold, centered, above your title. Write "Assess for AC1" for example. Then upload this specific paper in the appropriate D2L for that assessment rubric.