Digital Writing Portfolio
Your final project for this course will be a portfolio that showcases two or more digital texts that you have thoughtfully developed within the conventions of digital writing while reflecting critically on these texts using readings in our class as well as in the field of digital rhetoric. Your portfolio should be created in HTML/CSS code, and you should include a homepage with an avatar/logo that you created in Photoshop and links to your digital texts and your Critical Reflection.
Digital Texts
We have been investigating a variety of genre possibilities this semester through our lab days. Potential texts include but are not limited to:
- Video Student Example
- Podcast
- Creative Writing or Digital Games w/ Twine Student Example
- Digital Poetry Professional and Student Example
- Multimedia Stories
- A Hypothetical Contribution to a Small Scale Digital Humanities Project
- Suggest a text
Critical Reflection
In addition to the two digital writing texts, you will also include a 1750-2500 word Critical Reflection of how your texts fit within the genre of digital writing. This Critical Reflection should make an argument about how your digital texts join the genre of digital writing, using analytical language from scholarly research in the field as well as theoretical and aesthetic perspectives. First, you might spend some time defining digital writing based on the texts we've read and discussions we've had in class. Then, work toward explaining how your two texts fit within that definition.
Your final critical reflection should then:
- interpret your own digital texts from a theoretical perspective
- demonstrate deep knowledge of digital writing
- demonstrate expertise in professional research
- showcase appropriate usage and application of research
- exhibit professional execution of a sustained written project that demonstrates significant development of an original idea
Rough draft due November 17th for Workshop
Final Portfolio and presentations due December 8th at 7pm
We will meet on December 8th at 7pm for brief and informal presentations. In general, this is an opportunity for us to meet one last time and celebrate the end of the semester. You will be limited to 10 minutes or less to showcase some of your digital texts and briefly explain how these texts help you theorize and define digital writing.