Ever since attending our class meeting last week, I have been contemplating what argument I would like to make through my final portfolio. I still feel that I would like to demonstrate my ability to acclimate to a specific professional setting and to make a substantial contribution to the organization. I am excited to work with the NW3C staff to make these contributions and develop materials that I can describe in my portfolio. However, since I can’t use copies of the actual documents that I will be working on in my final portfolio, I will need to think of an alternate way to demonstrate my work. This led me to think about our discussion of incorporating creativity in our work as interns. I realize that my approach to my final portfolio may take some creative thinking.
Since much of the work I have done thus far has involved PowerPoint slides and course outlines, I have begun to consider what type of documents will constitute my twenty pages of finished polished writing. I may have to use the actual documents and edit out specific information. Also, I may be able to use formats and templates that do not include information, but instead visually display the types of texts I have been working on. Though I am not yet certain of the documents I will use, I know that my reflective essay will likely include a great deal of explanation and description of the text.
I’m glad that we began discussing the goals for the final portfolio early in the semester. I think that I will find it beneficial to continue thinking about my portfolio as I work on new tasks at my internship. I plan to keep a mental list of the items that I could possibly include in my portfolio and to start brainstorming ways that I could use these documents without disclosing confidential information. Though I do anticipate this being a somewhat challenging task, I also think that it will be an excellent learning experience. If I begin planning for my portfolio now, I should be able to create an effective method for displaying my work.
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You've done a smart thing to begin using your reflective writing blog to begin thinking through your goals and your rhetorical strategies for the final portfolio. I like your two different ideas about how to present documents in the portfolio itself; you're right, though, that your portfolio in particular will need to provide lots of specific details and examples to describe the specific decisions you've made in drafting and designing documents. The details and examples here would not be details and examples of specific confidential information but rather specific details and examples of the rhetorical strategies you've made in order to produce a document (for example, "doing X and Y and Z in order to create a professional tone" or "doing A and B and C in order to create a clean, consistent design in the PPT slides").
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