The portfolio is an opportunity for you to demonstrate the critical thinking, reading, and writing knowledge you’ve developed, to reflect on how you have changed as a reader and writer, to assess how you can still grow as a reader and writer, and to describe how you can apply the knowledge and skills from this class in other academic, professional, and personal context. Your portfolio will contain examples of your work in this course, and you will use evidence from your work to illustrate what you have learned in this class.
Your course portfolio contains several different elements. Your portfolio must contain:
1. Portfolio cover letter
The portfolio cover letter demonstrates who you are as a reader and writer to your reader. The cover letter should be 500-750 words long, and it can be addressed to your future writing instructor. The content of your cover letter should include the following:
Identify your strengths and areas for improvement as a writer using evidence from the work contained in the rest of the portfolio. For example, if you think that one of your strengths is clear and concise language, then you should quote and analyze example sentences from your major writing projects that would demonstrate that language.
Establish goals for how you want to continue to develop as a writer.
Explain how you will use what you’ve learned in this class about critical thinking, reading, and writing in other academic, professional, and personal situations (for example, how will you apply what you’ve learned in this class to other classes in your major or in your workplace).
2. Major writing projects
the portfolio should include the following:
The assignment prompts for Writing Projects 1, 2, and 3
Your submission for Writing Projects 1, 2, and 3
These submissions will help contextualize the portfolio revision letters, and you can also use excerpts from your writing projects as evidence in your reflective cover letter.
3. Revision letters for all major writing projects
For each of the major writing projects that you include in the portfolio, you will write a 500-word revision letter to accompany each major writing project (a total of 3 revision letters). In your revision letter, you should:
Explain the strengths and weaknesses of your initial submission by addressing your instructor feedback, peer feedback, and your own assessment now that you have developed as a writer. You should also
Explain how you would rewrite this assignment now. You will not actually need to revise your writing project, but you will need to explain in detail what changes you would make based on your draft’s strengths and weaknesses and what effect these changes would have on the draft. For example, if you think that the topic of Writing Project 1 was not engaging to the reader, you would explain in detail why the topic was not engaging, what your new topic would be, and why this new topic would be an improvement.
Submission:
Please put together your cover letter and the three revision letters into one document (use page breaks and headings) and submit it as a Word or PDF file.
Author: admin
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Title: Reflective Portfolio: Growth as a Reader and Writer
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“Cultural Competence in Oral Health: Understanding and Respecting Diverse Identities and Traditions”
Culture is a primary force in the creation of a person’s identity. Oral health professionals who are culturally competent are
better able to understand and respect their patients’ identities and related cultural ways of life. Each student must present
their group of diverse racial and ethnic groups to class by sharing their life experiences, values, and traditions in
life and medical/dental treatment. Students working in pairs must research and may interview their group to gain
information. As an option for creative purposes present NOT as a PowerPoint but present in cultural costumes and provide
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Title: “Rationality and the Pursuit of the Good Life: A Summary and Reflection” In the essay “Rationality and the Good Life” by John M. Doris, the concept of rationality is explored in relation
For your first assignment please make sure you’ve read the essay and listened to the full lecture. In at least two full pages please provide a complete summary of the reading. Your summary should at least accomplish these three things. 1. Provide the definition of rationality given in the reading and explain it. 2. Discuss how rationality leads to the good life as explained in the lecture. 3. Pick one of the techniques of rationality that you feel would help you the most in making better decisions. Explain why that technique would help you most and what you can do now to develop it. You may quote single words or phrases, and you are encouraged to quote definitions, but please don’t quote explanatory sentences or passages.
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Title: Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Workplace: Exploring the Impact on Career Decisions and Opportunities
This week we consider how racial and ethnic identities affect work, the work place, acces to opportunities, hiring decicions, emplymement policy, and law.
Remember that the resources must be about your racial or ethnic identity in career decisions, the workplace, and other considerations/issues that affect work and occupation choices and experiences.
When finding resources, make sure to choose what speaks to your identity and experiences. Avoid articles that are not about your specific identity.
Find:
2 peer reviewed academic journal articles (within last 5 years)
AND 1 recent source that is credible (within 3 years)
Can be news, data, video as long as the source is credible and of significant length
Grad students: 3 academic and 2 other
Format for each resource:
Standard formal paper format
1-inch margins, 12-point font, page numbers, double spaced
Title page
Follow Pudue OWL instructions for the title page, found here (only use for the title page)
Read the Purdue notes on the left for exact spacing
Make a new page for each reference
Do the following in order:
At the top list reference in APA Style
Make sure to double check them
Find the Purdue OWL electronic sources page here
TED Talk and YouTube have specific formatting
First paragraph: Summary
Academic journal articles suggestionsof what you may want to include:
who/what was studied
discussion points
conclusion
suggestions
all information you think you will use in the term paper
again write only what is pertinent to you and why you choose this article
Other sources:
who, what, when, where, etc that is pertinent to you
pertinent specific information, statistics, etc you will use in the term paper
Second paragraph: How it applies to you personally
In a paragraph write how this applies to your identity, matches your experience, or explains what you have observed in what has happened to you, your family, or those very close to you. Also write a sentence expressing how you might use the information from the article in the term paper.
Make sure to speak of how it directly affects YOU, even when it is a family member’s story
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“Script for Incident Response: Automating the Process for Efficient Resolution” Title: Script for Incident Response: Automating the Process for Efficient Resolution Script: “Automated Incident Response Script” Link: https://github.com/rapid7/automated
Find a script related to incident response. Describe the script and how it can be used for incident response. Include a link to the script
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The Harmful Effects of Censorship: A Threat to Freedom of Expression Censorship has been a controversial topic throughout history, with governments and institutions using it as a tool to control information and suppress dissent. While it may seem like a
Basically it’s a 5 paragraph essay on any topic. I chose censorship and why it’s harmful, so you do big resons why it’s harmful. Then your 4th paragraph is a rebuttal to your main idea.
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Title: Positive Reinforcement, Negative Effects, and Teaching Self-Care Skills for Young Children. 1) Positive Reinforcement Behaviors for Young Children: a) Praising and acknowledging their efforts and accomplishments. b) Providing tangible rewards such as
1) List 5 types of teacher behaviors that are likely to be positively reinforcing for most young children.
2) List 3 possible negative effects of frequent punishment on young children?
3) There are 2 parts to this question: a) How much help and what kind of help should be given to a child who is trying to learn a self-care skills? b) What are the 5 key steps in teaching a self-care skill? -
Symbolic Interactionism and Its Limitations in Understanding Marriage and Family Dynamics Introduction Marriage and family are two fundamental institutions in society that have been studied extensively by sociologists. These institutions play a crucial role in shaping individuals’ lives and have
You are required to use outside scholarly research to analyze the concept of marriage and family from the major theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionist. What does the symbolic interactionism theory say about the interaction of family, meaning and symbols of gender roles within family, marriage, and divorce? Also, the symbolic interactionism theory mainly looked at marriage under a heteronormative lens. This theory doesn’t hold up as well when definitions of marriage and family are broadened to cover the wide spectrum of family types that we see today. Explain, describe and provide some of the limitations of this theory when applying it to marriage and family? You are required to write 700-1000 words, double spaced, and APA format where you will critically examine the impact of family in our society by providing comprehensive examples illustrating your sociological understanding of this institution. See the rubric for additional information. Use the rubric to work on your theoretical perspectives on the marriage and family research paper. You are required to have at least 2 to 3 outside scholarly references for this paper. Make sure to not use I, We, Our. Solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines.
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Paraphrasing and Responding to Classmate’s Post on Enclyclopedia.com Excerpts
Instructions
Choose only ONE of the following options below and, in your post, write a paraphrase that avoids plagiarism of the paragraph you have chosen. Your paraphrase can be as long as the excerpt you have chosen, but should not duplicate any phrasing from the excerpt. If you must, you can quote up to three words in a phrase.
When you are done posting your paraphrase, reply to at least one classmate’s paraphrase, commenting on what s/he has done well and what s/he can improve with the wording. Your response should be written in no fewer than 75 words.
Choose to paraphrase ONE of the excerpts below taken from Enclyclopedia.com:
Option 1
Morrison began writing Sula in 1969, a time of great activism among African Americans and others who were working toward equal civil rights and opportunities. The book addresses issues of racism, bigotry, and suppression of African Americans; it depicts the despair people feel when they can’t get decent jobs, and the determination of some to survive. Eva, for example, cuts off her leg in order to get money to raise her family. Morrison shows how, faced with racist situations, some people had to grovel to whites simply to get by, as Helene does on a train heading through the South. Others, however, fought back, as Sula does when she threatens some white boys who are harassing her and Nel.
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Option 2
In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and thus became the first African American and only the eighth woman ever to win the award. According to Maureen O’Brien in Publishers Weekly, Morrison said, “What is most wonderful for me personally is to know that the Prize has at last been awarded to an African American. I thank God that my mother is alive to see this day.” In 1996, she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Your discussion post will be graded according to the following criteria:
80% – Clear paraphrase of the selected text in your own words
20% – Thoughtful response to a classmate’s post that comments on what was done well and what could be improved (at least 75 words) -
Title: Reflection on Effective Advertisement for a Chosen Product: Exploring the Role of a Marketing Manager in Encouraging Growth and the Benefits and Challenges of Sales Promotions and Advertising
The responsibilities of product marketing manager include communicating a product’s value to the market. Product marketing managers create marketing materials for communicating product features, in addition to developing marketing tools and campaigns for attracting and keeping new and existing customers. A marketing manager is involved in long-term sale of a product through effective advertising.
With this in mind, pick any product of your choice and write a reflection on effective advertisement for the product and address the following questions
1. In the short-term, how does a marketing manager encourage growth through sales promotions of the product?
2. What are the similarities and differences between advertising and sales promotions for the product?
3. What benefits and challenges are associated with each?