English 1A
Portfolio Guidelines

Required Enclosures, Appropriate Format, and Evaluation Criteria

I. Your work from this semester:

1. Include the two best full-length essays that you have written this semester.
    
2. Include all graded drafts and plans as well as the corresponding rubrics, placing the most recent revision on top. Create two separate clusters, one for each writing assignment. Place the cluster of documents that represents your best essay on top.

II. Comments on your work:

1. In a paragraph explain why you have chosen the top essay as your best. Be sure to frame your comments in terms of how you dealt with your audience, focused your thesis, arranged your ideas, developed your main point, and edited your text. Through your explanation, make clear to your reader your understanding of what makes a good essay. This paragraph should be placed on top of your best essay.
    
2. Read the other side of this form; address the appropriate category; sign the form, and make it the first page of your portfolio.

III. Evaluation of the portfolio materials will be based on the following criteria:

1. Has the student met the portfolio deadline?
    
2. Has the student included all the required materials?
    
3. Is the material presented neatly?
    
4. Examined in terms of the six-tiered rubric (below), does the student writing meet English 1A standards?
   
   i...Audience and task (no major weaknesses in this category with no more than two inappropriate pronoun or verb tense shifts)
   
   ii...Organization (no major weaknesses)
   
   iii...Development (no major weaknesses)
   
   iv...Sentence structure (generally free of errors and effectively varied with no run-ons and no inappropriate fragments)
   
   v...Word choice (no more than four inappropriate word choices)
   
   vi...Mechanics (no more than five different errors)
   
   
   
   Note: See 1A “Rubric” for a more detailed description of categories.

Portfolio Evaluation Form

English 1A

Portfolio Grade _____________

Student Name ___________________________________

Date ___________________

Evaluator _______________________________________

To the student: check one of the categories below.

1. Aside from instructor input, all of the work in this portfolio is completely my own.
2. I have been an active member of a writers’ study group. My final drafts reflect collaboration.
3. I have regularly met with the following tutors and/or instructors who have given me help with the enclosed documents.


4. OTHER: What follows is a brief description of the process I used to create the works in this portfolio.


(Attach an additional sheet if necessary.)

My signature here attests the truth and honesty in my academics.
student signature __________________

To the evaluator:
1. Has the student met the portfolio deadline?

2. Has the student included all required materials?

3. Is the material presented neatly?

4. Do the student’s writing skills meet 1A standards?
I.....Audience and task


ii...Organization


iii...Development


iv...Sentence structure


v...Word choice


vi...Mechanics