Portfolio Cover Letter and Section Introductions

Your complete writing portfolio for the class is due at my office by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 10. Preparing to submit your portfolio will include composing your final writing for the class:

The Portfolio Cover Letter:

In a cover letter, addressed to me, please introduce your quarter's work and assess your overall progress this quarter as a critical thinker, researcher, writerŠ and who knows? perhaps in other ways as well. What were your hopes, your goals for this class at the beginning of the quarter? How far and in what directions has the quarter's work brought you in achieving your goals of becoming a better critical thinker, researcher, and writer?

In your letter, please also reflect in more specific terms on your experience with and what you have learned in relation to each major assignment of the quarter: the Leap-of-Faith essay, the Rhetorical Analysis of Written and/or Visual Texts, the research paper, and your final mutimedia oral presentation.

I look forwarded to reading your "collected works"! Remember, the portfolio as a whole, and each section of it, is not only about the finished, most polished products that it contains; it is also about the process of getting there.