Purpose: In this last module, you will put together a collection of your work for your ERWC portfolio. This final portfolio can be useful as you begin your college experience or even for a career that incorporates critical thinking skills.

The portfolio will include a portfolio analysis of your work over two semesters with representative assignments from various times during the year.

Requirements: Document minimum: quick write, annotated text, summary, three timed or process essays (one each from early, middle, and late phases of the year).

Portfolio Letter: Write a portfolio letter analyzing your reading and writing processes and the progress you have made during the past two semesters. Use the Student Learning Goals Self-Assessment exercise to evaluate your own progress, drawing upon your responses as you compose your letter. Your letter should make a persuasive text-based argument that you have met ERWC Portfolio Criteria. You must refer to the assignments themselves and discuss all parts of your portfolio. In this analysis you should address the following questions:

Why did you choose these particular assignments (including the three essays)?
What was the process you went through to complete the quick write, the annotated text, and the summary? How has the process you go through to create documents like these changed?
How has your ability to write academic essays developed? Include specific examples from your three essays to provide evidence of your process and/or progress. For ideas, look back on journals, memos, or “Reflections on Reading and Writing” you have done throughout the semester and/or compare earlier work with later work.
What have you learned about your own strengths and needs for improvement as a reader and writer and the ways your reading and writing have changed? How have you modified your reading and writing processes? Provide examples of changes in writing processes where possible.
What have you learned about the expectations of academic reading and writing while completing these assignments? In what ways have you been able to transfer to your other classes what you have learned about those expectations?
What can you do now that you could not do at the beginning of the year? Provide specific examples.
In what areas of your reading and writing do you still see needs for further growth and development? What specific goals could you set for yourself to improve your reading and writing?
How well do you believe you are prepared for the academic reading and writing you are likely to encounter in college? Explain your grounds for that belief.