Portfolios in First Year Composition: Collection, Selection, and Reflection-A Teaching Guide

"In truth portfolios are not a cure-all; they are not going to magically make students better writers. What they are is enough; a way of integrating testing, teaching, and curriculum; a way of reintroducing a piece of the most laudable feature of oral testing, the awareness that literacy of all kinds exists within a social setting"(Belanoff).

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A Brief History of Portfolios

Utilization

Portfolios in the First Year Composition Classroom

Samples

What are BSU Faculty Saying?

Helpful Sources

Bibliography