SDV Final Portfolio Reminders

Hi, everyone.

Here is a reminder checklist of everything that needs to be included in your final portfolio:

1) Reflection Letter (aka. Cover letter, Cover essay, Reflective essay, etc.). This should be 4-5 pages in length double-spaced and include the items that Dr. Brandon gave you in class this week. You can reference these instructions in Week 6 or at the bottom of this announcement.

2) Life Files printed out and dated (6 total including the one assigned this week)

3) Major Asignments

• Career Assignment (including all 4 parts - Inventories Summary, printed description of one particular job, Career Exploration Worksheet, and Job Listings)
• Advising Assignment (including all 4 parts - First Year Advising Sheet from the SSC, your addresses page, your financial aid page, and your course schedule for this semester)
• Activities Assignment (2 completed activities and full descriptions. If you were unable to attend an activity b/c it was cancelled or rescheduled, you may include proof of the original sign up for credit.)
• Course Evaluation (email from Class Climate asking you to evaluate the SDV course - This should be sent to you within the next few days if you haven't already received it. I just need the "Thank you" page for your assignment.)

4) Artifacts - demonstrating what you've done and learned in my class. This is one of the MOST important parts of your portfolio for me and should include LOTS of work.

If you have any questions, just email me!

-Prof M



Reminders from Week 6 on What the Reflective Letter should include:

"3. In class this week, we began discussing the reflective essay/cover letter you will write for your final SDV 100 portfolio. In many respects, your grade on your final SDV portfolio will reflect how you are doing in both SDV and ENG 111, because to write the reflective essay and write it in a way which will allow you to achieve your rhetorical purpose for the letter, you'll have to employ what you've learned in ENG 111 about rhetoric, audience, writing for a purpose, adapting your writing to the needs of your audience, and writing process. This week, you learned about the necessity of connecting the claims you make to evidence and analysis. These are the Point-Evidence-Analysis (PEA) body paragraphs we discussed in class. In class, you also worked with your group to come up with a list of claims you can honestly make about what you have learned in SDV 100, and you began to connect these claims with specific artifacts from assignments which you've completed for SDV and ENG 111.
a. Complete and publish the list of claims you can make and the evidence you can use to support these claims to your blog. This can serve as a record for your final ENG 111 portfolio of what you've learned in terms of group discussion and brainstorming as pre-writing/discovery techniques. If you weren't in class, make sure to get a copy of these notes from someone in your group; otherwise, you'll need to create them on your own.
b. With the post from 3a in hand, you are now in a position to begin drafting individual, PEA paragraphs for your SDV portfolio's reflective essay. Draft three body paragraphs of this essay using your post from 3a. Each paragraph should follow the PEA structure, that is, each paragraph should: 1) make a claim/offer an opinion about what you have learned in SDV; 2) introduce evidence you can use to support this claim/opinion; and, 3) provide an explanation of why this evidence supports your claim/opinion. Remember, in each paragraph, you might need to invest from one to three sentences for each part of the paragraph, and it isn't uncommon to need to introduce two or more pieces of evidence and accompanying analysis to support each claim. Post the drafts of your paragraphs to your blog. Remember, drafts are written in complete sentences; they capture what you want to say in sentences and paragraph form; and, you assume you'll be going back and revising and proofreading the paragraphs later, so they don't need to be perfect. They do need to capture your thinking about your claim as completely as possible. "