ENG 101: REVISION PORTFOLIO INFO

NOTE: You will need to upload TWO files OR to combine the materials below into a? single file. Either way is fine. You do not have to re-submit your original essay; I still have? that in Moodle.

COVER LETTER:

You are welcome to be formal or informal in your cover letter; assume you are writing directly to me. You are welcome to use section headings or a traditional paragraph format. The main thing is to be clear and specific in addressing the questions below. You’ll need to draft everything except the project reflection BEFORE you complete your revision. Wait to add the reflection after you have revised. Here are the questions to address:

1) What is your revision project’s genre? What is its purpose? Who is its audience?

2) Describe TWO specific writing goals you would like to accomplish with this project. Be clear and detailed in articulating each goal. Make sure these goals are relevant to your genre and meaningful to you.

3) Why do you want to compose this specific kind of revision with these specific goals? (Your reasons might be academic/writing skill-related or more personal.)

4) (AFTER YOU REVISE) What are you proud of? Describe the strengths of your revision, and explain how the revision aligns with / accomplishes your specific goals.

DEEP REVISION:

Your revision needs to be connected to an earlier essay/assignment but also substantially changed. This is your opportunity to carve out a text you would like to create and to set your own goals for yourself as a writer. Successful revisions in the past have involved:

· Keeping the original genre and purpose but ?revising for stronger organization and development.

· Lifting out the topic/some content from the original and? transforming it into another genre? and/or ?gearing it toward a different audience?. (For example, recrafting an identity narrative for a reader who helped shape your identity; recrafting the extended definition as a narrative profile essay or as an insider’s guide to fitting in with a particular community; recrafting the ad analysis as advice for consumers who might “fall for” the ad.)

· Integrating visual or audio-visual components? for a multi-modal revision. (For example, revising your identity narrative as a comic or spoken-word poem; revising your language community analysis as a short video.)

· Zooming in on a key element of the original text ?and developing an entire text around that element. (For example, building a narrative essay around a single important experience, if your identity narrative covered multiple brief stories; rebuilding your ad analysis around the smartest, most relevant points, if you tended to move through those quickly.)

· Expanding the original text? to include content that didn’t fit earlier. (For example, adding more stories as kinds of mini-chapters to your identity narrative; integrating multiple ads from a particular series to build an expanded ad analysis; integrating viewer responses to your ad analysis; expanding the vocabulary you address in your extended definition essay.)

· Shifting the main message/emphasis of a text.? (For example, maybe you see your identity in a new way, now. Or maybe you’d like to tell an identity-related story without having to link it back to the concept of identity. Or maybe you see a new complexity in the argument your ad was making.)

· Combinations of the above ?can also work. For example, maybe you zoom in on a particular experience and recast your identity narrative as a brief screenplay or drama script. Or maybe you add additional words and phrases from your language community and craft them into a series of blog posts to teach others about that community.

· You might think of something I haven’t even imagined! Please pitch your creative, interesting idea to me. I bet we can make it work!