English Portfolio
English majors are asked to keep an English portfolio. As you build your English portfolio, you are asked to self-assess your work and to reflect on both its strengths and weaknesses. By reexamining your work, you should come to a greater sense of your accomplishments and a greater sense of where you should place your energies to improve.
The department has an assessment goal in reviewing portfolios (see the English Department Assessment Plan); the official assessment activity is a function of the Capstone Seminar in each major and not a function of the pathways courses.
The English portfolio should contain nine papers:
- The Capstone Project
- Eight papers (electronic copies) that span your college career (theoretically one
per semester for a four-year degree; realistically you will
not be held to such a strict production schedule). Each paper
will be accompanied by a reflection statement. The portfolio should
show a progression of learning; therefore, you may wish
to include a less successful paper from which you learned
something significant about your writing along with examples
of your "best work." Represented in the eight papers should be:
- Papers from general English classes (e.g. 210) as well as those specific to your major track
- For comprehensive majors, one or two papers from your "non-English" courses, reflecting the interdisciplinary aspect of your work (those in 36-credit majors may also include a paper from non-English courses)
- One collaborative paper, reflecting the function of collaborative work in English
The English Portfolio can be submitted online by uploading documents to the university server via the web. The university Web Portfolio page gives you access to your general portfolio as well as any other portfolios, in this case English.
To access the site, log in using the same username and password that you use for your UWEC e-mail account and go to: View My Portfolio. Directions for using the Web Portfolio are available at http://www.uwec.edu/help/webportfolio.htm
The English portfolio will be reviewed by at least two instructors in the Capstone Seminar. If you have any questions, please see your advisor.
Baccalaureate Portfolio
Consider that all writing you produce constitutes an "Archive" from which various "portfolios" can be selectively constructed.
- Some classes require a course portfolio to be submitted for determining the final grade in the course.
- The Office of University Assessment has established a university portfolio that is primarily aimed at aiding in assessing how the general education goals of the new Baccalaureate are being met.
- Print out or download a copy of the Portfolio Reflection Statement.
