What Is the First-Year Writing Portfolio?
This year Spelman College will support the First-Year Writing Portfolio—along with other elements of the First Year Experience SpEl.Folio—with the ePortfolio2 program in Chalk and Wire. The advantages to completing an electronic portfolio are many: it is portable and flexible; it builds upon skills learned in first-year core classes including CIS 100, English 103, and ADW 111-112; it enables a high level of creativity in presenting your work; it builds and showcases skills which are attractive to employers and graduate schools; and, most important, it encourages you to show the connections between the many different skills you learn in your first year at Spelman. Your participation in the FYE 102-First-Year Experience will include submission of this First Year Writing Portfolio by April 13, 2011. As you will see below, the portfolio involves much of your writing experience during the 2010-2011 term. In addition to this portfolio that will be assessed by faculty and professionals invite
