Overview

Each week you will add to your online Writing Portfolio. It is a place to collect your readings responses and write your rough drafts before they are put into a formal post, comment, or paper.

Your Writing Portfolio is also a place for collecting observations, ideas, freewriting, images, links, videos, and other media to help you develop your ideas and critically reflecting on your influences, history, culture, likes, and dislikes. This practice of being curious about your own design aesthetic is a way to gain experience engaging with critical design theory.

Your journal may be private or public throughout the semester but it should be submitted at the midterm and end of the semester for review.

Get Started!

We will be using Google Docs for our Writing Portfolios because most students already use Google or Gmail. If you don’t have an Account, you can create one here. However, if you have another format you’d like to use please do!

  1. Create a new google doc. Or use this starter doc with headings, table of contents, and footnotes to copy or work from: Template Writing Portfolio
  2. You may format your Writing Portfolio in whatever way works best for you, but a good informational structure is helpful.
  3. Add headings and table of contents to structure your Writing Portfolio.
  4. Use spelling & grammar check and word count.
    1. Google Help Center > Spell Check
    2. Google Help Center > Word Count

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Submit your Writing Portfolio

Twice during the semester, you will share your Writing Portfolio with your professor. If there is anything in the journal you don’t wish to share, you may duplicate the journal, remove the parts you want to keep private and submit it for review.

Due Dates

  • Midterm
  • Final

Submission Process

  1. Get your Writing Portfolio ready to share by creating a sharable link.
  2. Create a post with the title: Writing Portfolio (YourInitials)
  3. Write a brief reflection about the experience of keeping this Writing Portfolio.
  4. Paste the sharable link into the post.
  5. To keep your post private and so only the professor can see your Writing Portfolio, choose Visibility > Private when you post.
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