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Each portfolio should be presented in a manila file folder labeled with your name (last, first), course number and section, semester and year. Each portfolio should include in this order:

1. Table of Contents (complete the online template and submit it with portfolio)
   1. Download MSWord Template for Portfolio Table of Contents.
2. A writing assessment letter addressed to the composition faculty. You are encouraged NOT to mention your instructor's name. This is an assessment of writing, not instruction.
   1. Write a letter to the English Department's composition faculty members. The first purpose of this letter is to describe for your readers the way in which you go about writing-your writing process. How do you get from blank page to finished product? Be thorough in your description. Further, explain what seems most and least developed in your process. The second purpose of this letter is to assess your finished writing products. Overall, what are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the writing you've produced? Further, explain what you most like about your writing and what you would most like to develop.
3. Two (2) compositions of different genres developed over time and with revision.
1. A copy of your instructor's assignment as a cover sheet for each composition
2. One of these compositions must include all writing involved in its development. Put the final version on top followed by a chronological organization of notes, drafts, revisions, and feedback from other students and/or the instructor. Please paperclip together all parts of this composition.
   • For English 102, you must incorporate secondary sources; primary research is optional.
   • One composition may serve as example of both process and use of outside sources, but two compositions are still required.
   • Important note: The final copy of each of these compositions should NOT include the instructor's comments and/or grade. Please submit clean copies
4. One piece of “writing under pressure”: A piece of writing that was composed entirely in class.

Your Portfolio grade will be based primarily on how polished (error free and insightful) your cover letter is, BUT

Failure to include any required element (i.e. the completed table of contents, the assessment letter, any one of the four compositions, samples of process, or samples of research) will result an an "F" for the portfolio grade.