PF Clippings: Too Little, Too Much, & Too Many

This post is to share and amplify comments that I've made on student blogs regarding template clippings for fall semester portfolios (PFs).

1. Too Little, Too Much, and Untitled

This is a comment I made today on a fall semester portfolio (PF). The PF post on which I commented was untitled:

It looks like your untitled clipping from the Writing IVc: Portfolio template is missing several lines at the beginning:

Student ID: vwxyz
(last five digits of
your student no.)

Writing IVc: Portfolio [Please use this title.]
(See: Note 1, below.)

0.0. Overview
Reviews, Posts, and Words
(See: Note 2, below.)


[Your clipping also] includes too much at the end:

///// [copy to here] end of template Posted by pab at 13:50 1 comments Links to this post [Photo] Labels: assignments, books, comments, essays, graphics, labels, links, media, portfolios, reflections, reviews, writing

• The missing lines at the beginning are necessary parts of the portfolio [from "Student ID" to "(See: Note 2, below)" ].
• The extra lines at the end ["/////...", including the graphic and labels from the Writing Studio Blog] are inappropriate in your portfolio post.

Please note that the extra lines at the end is a recurring fault I had pointed out in July (Your Portfolios: Common Faults to Fix ASAP, item 1.).


2. Too Many PFs or Pieces of PFs

Though your completed fall semester PF must consist of a single post (as your spring PF was to have consisted), some students in Writing IVc have published multiple draft PFs this week. One has published her/his draft PF for fall semester in many separate pieces.

On your blog you should publish only three PF posts for fall semester; they should have these exact titles:

1. Proto-Portfolio 2-01: Reviews, Posts and Words,
2. Proto-Portfolio 2-02: Essays, &
3. Writing IVc: Portfolio.

You should label all three of those fall semester posts as "portfolios".

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