Throughout the semester we have discussed the importance of the public audience in science writing and in this spirit you have been posting your major writing assignments on your CUNY Academic Commons site. As discussed at the beginning of the semester, this site will serve as your portfolio for the class as well.
The portfolio and self-assessment are in many ways the most important documents that you’ll create for this class. Assembling the portfolio will help you to see your progress in spoken and written communication over the course of the semester; the self-assessment will give you the chance to evaluate that work based on your own criteria as well as the course learning outcomes.
The Self-Assessment will provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate that you’ve understood the theoretical concepts and rhetorical terms presented in the class and have practiced the interpretative and communicative techniques that we’ve been working with all semester. The portfolio should include, at a minimum, the self-assessment essay, the three major writing projects and four additional documents evidencing your work in this course. Feel free to add additional documents to the portfolio. You might want to include notes, design elements, drafts of essays, images, or something else not listed here. Any piece of writing referenced as evidence in the Self-Assessment should be included in your portfolio, though not all 7 items from the portfolio need to be referenced in the Self-Assesmment. The Self-Assessment allows you to evaluate your work based not only on your own criteria but also on the class learning outcomes.
