Website E-Portfolio Instructions

Website E-Portfolio 

 

Throughout the semester, you will be learning how to compose, design, and advocate. As an ongoing semester project, you will create, design, and maintain a website that will serve as a semester portfolio. A portfolio is used by many disciplines to showcase a student or employee's work. They are common for educators, artists, web developers, advertisers, and so on. Think of this as an opportunity to collect, reflect upon, and showcase your work this semester.

 

All major assignments will be featured in your e-portfolio.  You can add additional links and design it any way you want—with stipulation that all semester’s work be able to be found and accessed on this website.  Keep in mind that this is an academic, professional website. Think carefully about the rhetorical choices you make about the presentation of yourself and your subject of interest.

 

Your homepage will be worth 5% of your grade, and the web portfolio is worth 15% of the grade.

 

Compose: The E-Portfolio will be an ongoing assignment due during finals week. Using Microsoft SharePoint, FrontPage or a compatible product, create a website that represents how you understand and appreciate the topic/subject you have chosen. 

 

Design:  Be absolutely sure to save and collect all the assignments you have completed this semester. The E-Portfolio will consist of completed assignments, i.e. papers, presentations, posters, relevant in-class assignments, etc. You must make any and all corrections to papers, assignments etc. prior to uploading; once receiving graded work that contains suggestions for improvement, the corrections must then be made before the assignment can be uploaded.

 

At minimum, the e-portfolio should contain the following:

•      Homepage

•      Genre analysis

•      Literature review and research report

•      Collaboratory documents

•      Online Opinion Piece

You may post other materials relevant to these projects, and other assignments as desired.

 Design Plan:

 What typeface and colors will you use?  Will you use graphics, pictures, and images?  

• In what order will you arrange your ideas?  
• How you will use logos, pathos, and ethos?  
• How you will produce and test the website and its navigation?
• Where on your website will you post or make your assignments available?   

Product Testing:

You will need to test your website repeatedly with different browsers to see if it works!

Advocate: The E-Portfolio is designed to provide you a forum by which to showcase your accomplishments and breakthroughs throughout the semester so that you may understand how your connection to the community begins in the classroom.   

(Source: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1312/paper_1.htm )