Unit Seven: Presenting Yourself

“Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.” Bruce Lee

 

 

This final assignment of RCL II bring us full circle, inviting you to reflect on your academic and personal engagements as you design an electronic portfolio. We started the semester considering our beliefs and the experiences that shaped them; now, we will reflect upon what story we would like to tell about ourselves and to what audiences.

An e-portfolio is a little different than a personal website; however, you—as a person and student—are still the main subject. To draw upon our archeology metaphor from the first semester, an e-portfolio is a collection of artifacts (usually between 5-8) that serve as evidence and examples of your work and commitments. Like a curator at a museum, you will carefully select, organize, and explain this collection, making connections, reflecting upon your interests, and providing context in concisely written “blurbs.”

The purposes and audiences you select for this project will determine what choices you make with regard to artifact selection, aesthetic choices, and arrangement considerations. These choices should be rhetorically fitting and consistent with design strategies for online audiences.

The purposes of this assignment are:

• to reflect on the work you have done, both academic and extracurricular, assessing the merits and themes of your inquiries

• to learn–and put into practice–careful editing and proofreading strategies especially adapted for online audiences

• to use rhetorical skills to design and present a body of work and commitments to both targeted and broader online audiences

In preparation for this capstone assignment, the last few class meetings will be spent arranging your portfolio and drafting and editing reflective, introductory, and biographical prose.

To submit your e-portfolio, please upload a one-page letter to CANVAS that explains the purpose(s) of your e-portfolio and includes your e-portfolio URL. Also, this letter should name the primary and secondary audiences for your e-portfolio and discuss how the style and content of the e-portfolio was adapted to those audiences.

Qualities of an excellent e-portfolio:

· Responds fittingly to the selected purposes and audiences

· Features concise, polished, and vivid introductory and explanatory blurbs

· Features fitting design and aesthetic choices that work well in an online environment

· Includes 5-8 high-quality artifacts that enhance credibility and reflect skills and interests

· Makes its themes and arrangement choices clear

· Enhances the ethos of its author

To submit your e-portfolio, please place a one-page letter on Canvas explains the purpose(s) of your e-portfolio and includes your e-portfolio URL. Also, this letter should name the primary and secondary audiences for your e-portfolio and discuss how the style and content of the e-portfolio was adapted to those audiences.  You will submit the URL to Canvas too.