Portfolio contents and uploading directions
Download this file to be guided through the process of creating your portfolio and uploading your five assignments and your analysis statement!
Contents of the Portfolio
Toward the end of providing an extensive written reflection that seeks to reveal your understanding of the core values, and using specific textual evidence from your writing to demonstrate to what degree you accomplished various learning outcomes, you are to select five pieces to include in your portfolio, taken from the following courses:
1. The Writer’s Mind
2. Writing, Research, and Technology
3. Methods of Analysis and the Evaluation of Writing
4. Any Rowan course (including, if desired, a second piece from the first three)
5. Any Rowan course (including, if desired, a second piece from the first three)
These last two pieces may come from any course in the program—including a second assignment from WM, WRT, or EW—or be originally submitted elsewhere at Rowan. You may use more than one piece from a single course. For those submitting poetry, at least five pages of poetry constitute one piece.
You are not expected to revise any of these five pieces. The Analysis Statement is being evaluated, not these five pieces. Each of the five pieces you have selected to include in the portfolio ought to provide you with rich opportunities for reflection, and they need not be “perfect.” The goal here has less to do with how you “got it right,” and more to do with how you understand what you did and didn’t accomplish, now, as you look back on your past efforts, using the light of the core values and their correlative learning outcomes to reveal what may have been hidden from you previously.
In order to demonstrate your efforts to achieve learning outcomes, you must provide specific textual evidence from your own writing selected from your portfolio pieces--except for values three and nine. Since there are seven core values that require you to draw from five portfolio pieces for evidence, you will have to decide how to give somewhat equal measure to all the values; you’ve got to do each one justice. One suggestion would be to have each piece “star” in a particular core value section of your Analysis Statement, and two would then “star” a second time in another core value section.
Toward the end of providing an extensive written reflection that seeks to reveal your understanding of the core values, and using specific textual evidence from your writing to demonstrate to what degree you accomplished various learning outcomes, you are to select five pieces to include in your portfolio, taken from the following courses:
1. The Writer’s Mind
2. Writing, Research, and Technology
3. Methods of Analysis and the Evaluation of Writing
4. Any Rowan course (including, if desired, a second piece from the first three)
5. Any Rowan course (including, if desired, a second piece from the first three)
These last two pieces may come from any course in the program—including a second assignment from WM, WRT, or EW—or be originally submitted elsewhere at Rowan. You may use more than one piece from a single course. For those submitting poetry, at least five pages of poetry constitute one piece.
You are not expected to revise any of these five pieces. The Analysis Statement is being evaluated, not these five pieces. Each of the five pieces you have selected to include in the portfolio ought to provide you with rich opportunities for reflection, and they need not be “perfect.” The goal here has less to do with how you “got it right,” and more to do with how you understand what you did and didn’t accomplish, now, as you look back on your past efforts, using the light of the core values and their correlative learning outcomes to reveal what may have been hidden from you previously.
In order to demonstrate your efforts to achieve learning outcomes, you must provide specific textual evidence from your own writing selected from your portfolio pieces--except for values three and nine. Since there are seven core values that require you to draw from five portfolio pieces for evidence, you will have to decide how to give somewhat equal measure to all the values; you’ve got to do each one justice. One suggestion would be to have each piece “star” in a particular core value section of your Analysis Statement, and two would then “star” a second time in another core value section.
Hints for Uploading Electronic Portfolios
Electronic Submissions
If you wish to submit a work that only exists on the web, simply provide a link for the URL rather than the complete work.
Naming Your Files
Be sure, in naming the files, that you make clear what course the assignment. Use your last name at the beginning of the file name:
Examples:
Reed - Evaluation of Writing - Paper Name
Reed - Writer's Mind - Paper Name
Electronic Submissions
If you wish to submit a work that only exists on the web, simply provide a link for the URL rather than the complete work.
Naming Your Files
Be sure, in naming the files, that you make clear what course the assignment. Use your last name at the beginning of the file name:
Examples:
Reed - Evaluation of Writing - Paper Name
Reed - Writer's Mind - Paper Name
Upload Process
- Open up your Google Drive (drive.google.com) and make sure at the top right you are signed into your Rowan email. (If you are not, click on your icon/display picture, and swap over to your Rowan account).
- Click New at the top left.
- Click Folder to create a new folder.
- Name your folder Last Name - Portfolio Seminar.
- For example, mine would be “Reed - Portfolio Seminar”
- Double click on your folder to open it.
- Upload your documents into this folder:
- You can click on New and then File Upload
- You can also drag and drop your files over from your desktop
- If your files already exist on Google Drive
- Open your file
- Click on Move
- Navigate to your Portfolio Seminar folder to move it there
- After all six items are moved into your Portfolio Seminar folder, rename them the following:
- For your analysis statement, name it your last name then Analysis Statement
- Example: Haruch - Analysis Statement
- For all other papers, name them Last Name - Course Name - Paper Name
- Example: Haruch - Writer’s Mind - Genre Analysis
- Feel free to abbreviate the course names (WM, WRT, AEW)
- For your analysis statement, name it your last name then Analysis Statement
- After all items are uploaded and properly named, navigate back to your folder and share it with your advisor and Professor Harrell (harrel52[at]rowan.edu).
- Click on your folder name where it says “My Drive -> Yourlastname - Portfolio Seminar”
- Click on Share
- Type in your advisor’s email
- Type in Professor Harrell's email (harrel52[at]rowan.edu)
- Under the “message” provide a message including your name, and that you are finished portfolio seminar, with an explanation of the six items your folder contains.
- Make sure Notify people IS checked (it should be by default)
- Click Send.
- After sharing your analysis statement with your advisor and me, also write an email from your student email to your advisor and me letting us know your analysis statement is shared with us and is ready to be graded.
The Analysis Statement
Core Values and Learning Outcomes
Questions Concerning Core Values
PS AS Peer Group Instructions
Portfolio Contents and Uploading Hints
Checklist for Portfolio Seminar
Holistic Grading Rubric for Portfolio Seminar
Commonly Asked Questions about Portfolio Seminar
By Students
By Instructors
Core Values and Learning Outcomes
Questions Concerning Core Values
PS AS Peer Group Instructions
Portfolio Contents and Uploading Hints
Checklist for Portfolio Seminar
Holistic Grading Rubric for Portfolio Seminar
Commonly Asked Questions about Portfolio Seminar
By Students
By Instructors
