Required Elements in the Capstone Portfolio
- The Directed Self-Placement (DSP) essay
- 1 major artifact from the First-Year Writing Requirement Course
- 1 major artifact from each course that fulfills the Minor requirement
- The gateway course (WRITING 220)
- An Upper-Level Writing Requirement course in the student’s concentration
- A second Upper-Level Writing Requirement course in the student’s concentration or another field
- An English department course (ENG 225, ENG 229, or ENG 325)
- The major capstone project from WRITING 400
- At least three writing artifacts produced outside of coursework in various modes (screenplays, videos, my resume)
- At least three additional reflective artifacts of students’ choosing (this wonderful essay, my "About Me," and this blog, which counts down my Top 25 College Memories)
- An evidence-based reflective essay that introduces the student’s final portfolio
- At least one artifact chosen must include all components of the writing process for that assignment, including:
- some aspects of invention
- rough drafts
- peer and instructor feedback
There are four layers of evaluation:
- “Portfolio as Composition”
- “Reflective Writing”
- “Artifacts: Alphabetic Compositions”
- “Artifacts: Multimodal Composition”
and three possible levels of achievement for artifacts within those layers:
- “meets expectations”
- “exceeds expectations”
- “does not meet expectations”