1. In the first paragraph on page 112, Yancey lists several different methods for approaching portfolio grading. How would you plan to go about grading portfolios in your classes and why? Would you consider collaborating with others or want to grade solo?
2. In line with the Wysocki chapter, what kind of aesthetic guidelines and visual elements would you include in student writing portfolios? Would you have your students write a heads-up statement explaining their choices?
Hi Aram,
ReplyDeleteIn response to your second question, I think that it is important that we have students write a heads-up or artist statement to explain why they made particular aesthetic choices. I want to make sure that my students are thinking analytically about the choices that they make in their compositions. If a student is choosing a particular font because they thought it looked cool and not because of some greater rhetorical reason, I wouldn't penalize them. I would just like to know if there is some greater meaning to the choices that they made.