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1. Portfolio cover letter
The portfolio cover letter demonstrates who you are as a reader and writer to your reader. The cover letter should be 250-500 words long (about a page or two) and it can be addressed to your future writing instructor if you would like. The content of your cover letter should include the following:
Identify your strengths and areas for improvement as a writer using evidence from the work contained in the rest of the portfolio. For example, if you think that one of your strengths is clear and concise language, then you should quote and analyze example sentences from your major writing projects that would demonstrate that language. You may be tempted to write an overly positive cover letter, but your failures and areas for improvement are just as important to recognize as your success. You do not need to argue that you are a perfect writer now (that is an academic myth anyway), but if there are any aspects of your writing that you want to improve upon, make sure to quote examples from your work as well.
Establish goals for how you want to continue to develop as a writer, academically and personally.
Explain how you will use what you’ve learned in this class about critical thinking, reading, and writing in other academic, professional, and personal situations (for example, how will you apply what you’ve learned in this class to other classes in your major or in your workplace).
2. Major writing projects
Your portfolio should include the following:
Your submission for Writing Projects 1, 2, and 3, with instructor’s comments if possible (you can download PDFs of your Projects with instructor’s comments from the Grades page). You DO NOT need to include the assignment prompts.
These submissions will help contextualize the portfolio revision letters, and you can also use excerpts from your writing projects as evidence in your reflective cover letter.
3. Revision letters for all major writing projects
For each of the major writing projects that you include in the portfolio, you will write a 250-500 word revision letter to accompany each major writing project (a total of 3 revision letters, so at least 750 words total for this portion). In your revision letter, you should:
Explain the strengths and weaknesses of your initial submission by addressing your instructor feedback, peer feedback, and your own assessment now that you have developed as a writer. You should also explain HOW you utilized that feedback and how that impacted your writing process.
Explain how you would rewrite this assignment now. You will not actually need to revise your writing project, but you will need to explain in detail what changes you would make based on your draft’s strengths and weaknesses and what effect these changes would have on the draft. For example, if you think that the topic of Writing Project 1 was not engaging to the reader, you would explain in detail why the topic was not engaging, what your new topic would be, and why this new topic would be an improvement.
If for whatever reason you did NOT turn in a writing project, you can still describe your learning and writing process and discuss how you would approach the project differently.
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