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Reflective Portfolio
Rationale:
The Reflective Portfolio asks students to look back on several major assignments from the content and INRW 0340 courses. In addition, students will write a reflective essay on the ways their critical thinking, reading skills, and writing abilities have changed over the course of the semester and think about their learning in the corequisite pair. The reflective portfolio is a method for students to critically review their connections between the paired courses and reflect on their progression toward personal goals, objectives, and outcomes the student wanted to achieve in courses that will prepare them for higher learning.
Integrated Reading and Writing Objectives
Student will:
- Locate the main idea and supporting details in written text including the student’s own work.
- Demonstrate cohesive sentence structure void of fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
Integrated Reading and Writing Student Learning Outcomes
After completing this course, students will:
- Analyze the impact of reading and writing independently and using critical thinking, problem-solving approaches in college-level materials to learn, study, and communicate with diverse opinions and values in a free society to support life-long learning.
- Select and monitor the effectiveness of writing strategies including a recursive vs. linear writing process, editing skills, transitions, thesis development, and paragraph development/ cohesion.
- Use their reading and writing skills to participate in academic debate on issues of importance to the society and the world at large.
- Write a well organized, cohesive essay including a developed introduction paragraph, multiple body paragraphs beginning with topic sentences and support, and a conclusion.
- Demonstrate academic ability to respond to types of assessments including graded assignments, compiling a portfolio, composing a short answer response for an in-class assessment, crafting a book review, analyzing primary and secondary sources, test preparation, and formal exams.
Discipline Specific Outcomes:
After completing this course, students will:
- Compose a variety of texts that exhibit characteristics of various writing patterns and purposes
○ expressive, compare contrast, persuasive, argumentative, referential, literary, narration, evaluation, etc.
- Reflect on self performance through writing.
- Compose a well organized essay including the following:
○ Introduction (hook, lead-in/ background information, thesis)
○ Body Paragraphs (topic sentence, support sentences, concluding sentence)
○ Conclusion (summary, call to action, lasting impression, tie up loose ends, etc.)
Guiding Principles
- The portfolio should revisit major assignments and require students to reflect on those assignments.
- The portfolio should include a reflective writing piece to foster curiosity about the world and open new ways of thinking:
How did this course affect you in these two categories? Provide specific examples from your course assignments to support your assertions.
- The portfolio should include a reflective response about specific strategies that helped you succeed in the co-requisite courses.
- Be specific about strategies that helped you to succeed, whether provided by the instructors or that you developed on your own. Feel free to compare this course to others you have taken.
- Also discuss reasons why some strategies were not successful. Give specific examples from this semester’s co-requisite pairing.
INRW 0340 / ENGL 1301 Corequisite
PORTFOLIO
Due Date ___________________
Purpose: The purpose of the portfolio is to demonstrate your progress in writing, reading, thinking and studying this semester in your CoRequisite course.
Directions: It is expected that you will revise and proofread the contents of this portfolio. To complete the assignment, make sure to include:
Grading: Your portfolio will count as a grade in both your INRW 0340 class and ENGL 1301. Refer to your course syllabus for the specific weight or points designated by your instructor.
- A Cover Page.
- A Table of Contents.
- Portfolio Introduction (1 page, double-spaced; 300 words or more):
Please include your response from the beginning-of-semester diagnostic that asked about your goals for the course. Below this, comment back on what you have since learned about yourself, about the course content (reading and writing), and what personal and academic growth you have observed in yourself.
- INRW 0340 assignment with corrections. This should be an example of your best work from your INRW 0340 course. This can include a journal entry, writing project or essay. Your INRW instructor may designate specific assignment(s) for this section of your portfolio.
- Describe your experience of the course and the INRW 0340 assignment you chose to include in this portfolio. How were you able to successfully complete these paired courses? Be specific about strategies that helped you to succeed, whether provided by the instructors or that you developed on your own. Feel free to compare this course to others you have taken.
- ENGL 1301 assignment with corrections. This should be an example of your best work from your ENGL 1301 course. This can include a discussion post, journal entry, writing project or essay. Your English instructor may designate specific assignment(s) for this section of your portfolio.
- Describe the ENGL 1301 assignment you chose to include in this portfolio. How was this assignment meaningful to you and why?
