One of the visual and rhetorical challenges in designing a digital portfolio is how to show -- to represent -- your thinking, drafting, rethinking, revising, editing, and proofreading processes. Some of us doodle in margins of an article, or make notes on our smart phones, or write full drafts in longhand, or write in chunks in a word-processing program. How can we take those materials later and present them coherently so that readers can get a sense of those iterative processes? Think in terms of your selection process here.
Previous students in WRD103 have been creative and admirably inventive in combining textual and visual elements in their digital portfolios. For example, one student scanned in drafts that had written comments she could use to discuss how she worked with others in class on drafts:
After she provided a few screen captures like this one, and put them into context for readers, she then linked to her final draft, which was in PDF format. In Digication, you can do that from your toolbar icon > Insert Media:
Another WRD103 student used screen captures to show how peers used comment and the track-changes feature, and how she negotitated that feedback when revising:
Once students got the hang of this process, they began to illustrate with visual and textual elements different approaches and arrangements that revealed interesting perspectives and reflections of their processes:
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