Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for Students / Edition 2

by Nedra Reynolds, Rich Rice

Overview

Learn to create a successful portfolio either in print or online for any situation with the innovative tips in Portfolio Keeping.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312419097
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	02/03/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	53
Product dimensions:	5.97(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

Nedra Reynolds is Professor and Department Chair of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004) as well as co-author with Elizabeth Davis of Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for Students, (Third Edition, Bedford/St. Martin’s 2013). She has coedited The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing (Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Editions). Her articles have appeared in Rhetoric Review, Journal of Advanced Composition, College Composition and Communication, Writing Program Administration, Pedagogy, and a number of edited collections. Elizabeth Davis is the Coordinator of the interdisciplinary Writing Certificate Program at the University of Georgia, where she is a faculty member in the Department of English. She teaches a variety of advanced writing courses and also facilitates the faculty Writing Fellows program. Her research focuses on writing and technology and she has written and presented on a variety of topics including the technological infrastructures for writing programs, and the rhetoric of Tumblr. As part of a Cohort VI member team of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research she and her colleagues at UGA are investigating assessment methods and material practices in e-portfolio pedagogy. She is co-author (with Nedra Reynolds) of Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for Students, Third Edition.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Taking Stock # 1: Establishing Expectations

PART ONE: THE PROCESS OF PORTFOLIO KEEPING

1. Setting Goals and Planning Ahead

2. Staying Organized and Keeping a Working Folder
Taking Stock # 2: Getting Organized

3. Keeping Watch to Become a Reflective Learner
Taking Stock # 3: What is Reflective Learning?
Taking Stock # 4: Composing Your Own Postwrite

4. Keeping Company and Working with Others
Taking Stock # 5: Assessing Peer Response

5. Keeping Up and Getting Unstuck
Taking Stock # 6: Finding Readers or Help

PART TWO: FROM PROCESS TO PRODUCT: PREPARING FOR ASSESSMENT

6. Understanding the Assessment Situation
Taking Stock # 7: Determining Your Program's Values
Taking Stock # 8: Reviewing Your Working Folder

7. Putting It Together: Selecting and Arranging Artifacts
Taking Stock # 9: Getting Help Choosing Artifacts

8. Preparing to Write the Introduction, Reflective Essay, or Reflective Components
Taking Stock # 10: Revisiting Your Expectations

9. The Final Stages: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading the Entries
Taking Stock # 11: Assessing Revision

10. Keeping, Continued: Re-using Portfolio Knowledge Work