Self-evaluation Draft
This allows me to write an evaluation that will make the most sense when combined your own evaluation in your transcript.
Portfolio Introduction
In which you hold forth on the cumulative learning represented by your portfolio, including a discussion of your best work, worst work, significant aspects of each section below, and including a description of accomplishments not represented by the portfolio materials. The Introduction must include significant commentary on both your final ms. and final essay.
Final Fiction Manuscript
Your final fiction manuscript can be a single piece of substantial length or several smaller pieces which together represent a “body” of work with some form of coherence. This manuscript will have been reviewed multiple times by your peer group and by me. We will have had at least one individual meeting about your manuscript.
Final Essay
This piece is a culmination of your seminar work, a synthesis of your best ideas from seminar papers and discussions and your engagement with the theoretical concepts of the program. This, too, will have been reviewed by peers and by me, and we will likely have the opportunity to meet about it one-on-one. The primary constraint on this piece is the necessity of incorporating ideas from our theory texts and from at least two pieces of fiction.
Workshops, in chronological order
Workshops range from skill-building to concept development to writing practice/exercises; this section includes all assigned writing pieces. In every workshop, even when group work is entailed, you should be conscientious about maintaining your own, individualized notes for your portfolio. Please organize workshop materials neatly and include any handouts/instruction sheets as a cover to their respective workshop.
Seminar Papers, in chronological order
Seminar papers will be described in more detail elsewhere. Assignments fluctuate according to workload and program themes.
Manuscript drafts & critique materials (incl. your critiques of others).
All materials related to peer critiques and manuscript development should be included here, including handouts, critique tasks, and so on.
Notes: Reading (substantial), Lecture, Seminar, and Research
Your notes are an important part of your portfolio. They should exhibit your care and diligence in every aspect of the program, your independent research abilities, your attention to lectures and seminars, and your rigorous processing of program themes and concepts.
Other
Anything else relevant to your growth this quarter as a writer and student of literature, particularly anything that might substantiate credit, specialized credit, or demonstrate exceptional effort.
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