Instructions Guidelines The portfolio memo should follow the genre conventions o

Instructions
Guidelines
The portfolio memo should follow the genre conventions of a memo (see sample). In it, you should discuss how the four assignments you have written for the course fulfill the student learning outcomes for WRIT 300 (see Syllabus) as well as assignment instructions. 1-2 pages.
3. WRIT 300 Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will read, write, and analyze a variety of texts produced for multiple purposes,
audiences, and genres in their field. They will produce documents which demonstrate that they
can:
• Identify, analyze, and apply rhetorical concepts such as audience, purpose, context,
genre, format, and tone
• Apply a repertoire of strategies for understanding, summarizing, and interpreting texts
from their professional discourse community
• Identify, analyze, and apply the rules of their disciplinary discourse community
• Establish, develop, and support a controlling idea, which is focused by a clear sense of
purpose and audience, in a range of documents
• Revise and adapt documents for multiple audiences, purposes, and genres.
Students will engage in recursive reading, writing, and research processes to participate in
the meaning-making of their field. They will produce documents which demonstrate that they
can:
• Set purposes and achieve goals for reading, writing, and research
• Apply a repertoire of strategies for generating ideas, focusing on a purpose, and revising
• Gather and synthesize information from relevant primary and secondary professional,
technical, or scholarly sources
• Select and organize evidence in ways that are ethical and appropriate to the genre
• Evaluate, integrate, and engage appropriate academic print and electronic sources
• Develop an argument which engages with a larger professional or academic conversation.
Students will engage in and critically self-reflect about reading and writing as social
processes. They will produce documents which demonstrate that they can:
• Successfully engage in self-reflective activities to assessing their own reading and writing
in relation to their own learning goals and values
• Use a variety of effective strategies for giving constructive feedback on peers’ writing
• Analyze and ethically incorporate feedback into their own writing
• Use a range of effective strategies to revise documents for global concerns with purpose
over several drafts
• Use a range of effective strategies for editing and proofreading their own work for local
concerns
• Describe and analyze how language, power, and knowledge within their disciplinary
discourse communities operate.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of textual conventions appropriate to writing
tasks in their field. They will produce documents which demonstrate that they can:
• Identify and use discipline-specific guidelines for citing and documenting sources
• Apply genre, format, and structure conventions appropriately to a range of documents
• Employ electronic media appropriate to the disciplinary context
• Demonstrate proficient control of grammar, sentence variety, word choice, and
appropriate conventions.