Portfolio Assessment


Information on Portfolio Assessment

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.

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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:

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Doing a Rhetorical Analysis of a Text (Essay #1/Handouts)

• Writing an expository essay, either illustration, comparison/contrast, cause and effect, definition or argumentative. (Essay #2-4)

• Self reflection piece

• Writing an expository essay, either illustration, comparison/contrast, cause and effect, definition or argumentative. (Essay #2-4)

• Self Reflection piece

• 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. (Essay #5)

• Peer Review Essay #2 (Assignment #10). Rewrite your Essay #2 after your group members have reviewed the essay and you have met with me for your conference.

• Personal Reflection on the peer review process and rewrite process for your essay.

• Final Personal Reflection/Assessment written after all portfolio assessments have been submitted to the wiki.

• Completion of the Wiki Portfolio and peer reviews using Writely