Mini-Portfolio: Writing and Communication

IAS Learning Objective (Links to an external site.): Writing and Communication

IAS students develop their writing and communication abilities by articulating significant purposes for their work, and gaining an awareness of its audiences and contexts. They learn to communicate those purposes effectively to audiences through writing, presentations, and other media, and to use a range of evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, to support their arguments. As part of this process, they develop the ability to identify and refer to other work clearly. As part of the development of reflective practice, students learn how to improve their writing and communication by collecting and reflecting on evidence of its reception by others.

For this assignment, you will create a mini-portfolio focused on your writing and communication capacities as described above and as re-interpreted by you in class.

Choose two to four artifacts from your work archive that provide evidence of these capacities. If you like, you can choose one artifact in which your abilities were less developed, and another in which they were better developed, to make a comparison. You may add more artifacts to your Google site for this purpose if you like.
Write a 300- to 500-word framing essay that explains your current capabilities related to this learning objective. Keep in mind that you are describing where you are in this moment in time, so it would be helpful to consider what came before this moment and where you intend to go after you graduate, and talk about your work related to this learning objective in those terms. Refer to your selected artifacts and explain how they serve as evidence of your capabilities in this learning objective. You should aim to be as specific as possible in explaining to the reader how the artifacts you have chosen demonstrate your abilities with regard to this learning objective. Remember that your reader will be unfamiliar with your work so you will need to describe it (rather than simply mentioning it). To this end, some of the writing from your annotated bibliography might be useful. If so, feel free to reuse it here.
As you complete this assignment, please draw on the IAS description of this learning objective, your revision of that description, and/or other materials and readings.

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As always, you must properly cite all ideas and words that you borrow from other sources.