The Final Week of Class

As we move into the final week of class, I want you going through multiple revisions of your portfolio and taking the time to present your *best* work. This means polishing your cover letter and writing inventory multiple time, taking the time to proofread both (again, multiple times), and making sure the pieces you pick for the evidence section do the work you want them to. Remember: the things you put into the evidence section are meant to help you prove the claims you make as to what you have learned in the cover letter and writing inventory. What you include in the evidence section doesn't have to be polished. This section can include notes, prewriting, annotations from your text, anything you've done on your blog, drafts of papers, etc. et etc.

Your cover letter and writing inventory should be as polished as you can make them.

I strongly suggest that you make at least one last past through the textbook, the class blog, and all your work to make sure you're making the best case you can for your grade and what you've learned in the course.

By the end of all this work, I suspect you will be impressed by all the information to which you've been exposed and how much you've written. Remember: the class isn't designed for you to learn everything to which you've been exposed. If you've learned how to analyze rhetorical situations, process writing, the connection between opinion, support, and evidence, and how to make yourself into a better communicator over time, I will be more than pleased.

You'll turn the whole shebang into me on Wednesday, 7 May.

You can turn this in one of two ways:

1. Add me as a collaborator for a long google doc which contains cover letter, inventory, and evidence. In the evidence section, you can include links to your blog, mindmaps, etc. Just make sure these links work.
2. Turn in everything as a physical portfolio.

I will be finished grading them by 9 May.

Regardless, once you are finished with your portfolio and turn it in, take a moment to fill out a course evaluation.

As always, write with questions.