Portfolio Requirements

Students' grades in English 101 depend on successful completion of all parts of the required portfolio for the course.

These parts include:

• Six completed papers and drafts
• Questions/responses to and from peer group readers
• All analytical writings for each paper
• An final analytical paper and its revisions
• A signed Portfolio Submission Form

The portfolio is an important document and accounts for the bulk of students' final course grades. However, the advisory grades given for each unit must be satisfactory for the portfolio grade to count. Students must complete all the work for the course in a timely fashion if they expect to do well. Unexcused late work constitutes a failure to meet these requirements.

Advisory grades are advisory and are only an indication of how well the instructor thinks a student will do on the final portfolio based on the work completed for each individual paper. The final course grade is based on the portfolio and is not an average of the advisory grades. The portfolio is graded as a complete document according to the English 101 grading standards. An incomplete portfolio can not receive a grade higher than a "D".