contents of portfolio

Contents of PWR Senior Portfolio

Over your four years in Professional Writing you will collect quite a lot of work from your professional writing courses. In Senior Seminar, you will assemble that work into a professional portfolio.  Here is the bare bones list of the portfolio for 2011.  Feel free to include other materials at the end

1. Table of Contents
2. Reflective Essay from an early course (perhaps PWR 295) on your own writing process or style
3. A paper that comes from one of your very early undergraduate courses (not necessarily PWR course) on any topic
4. A paper that explicitly refers to rhetorical principles.  Appropriate selections include a rhetorical analysis of a text (speech, an advertisement, a piece of literature, a business document, or a bumper sticker, etc), a theoretical paper in which the writer demonstrates her understanding of a rhetorical concept or principle, a genre study where writer applies rhetorical theory to the discourse conventions of his minor, or a cultural studies paper that demonstrates how discursive practices shape and are shaped by cultural forces
5. A document exemplifying a technical genre.  Likely sources for this paper will be
6. Technical Writing, Internship, and elective PWR courses like Business Writing. This paper often “translates” from an expert audience to a general audience or vice versa.  Examples of such documents include a set of instructions, a grant proposal, a technical report, a feasibility study, a progress report, a business plan, a public relations document, a public service announcement, white paper, or other problem-solving document.
7. One example from each of several creative genres: poems, fiction, novel, creative nonfiction essay, screenplay, script, and the like
8. Your resume
9. Project paper written this semester in Senior Seminar
10. Portfolio reflection
11. Any other interesting papers you’ve written as an undergradate

All the papers should be clean two-sided double-spaced final drafts assembled in a SUNY Cortland folder OR on a CD.  All should be set up like the top of this page.  Except for papers papers 1, 2, 3 and 11, be sure you are submitting revised work in the best condition.