Checklist for the Process Essay and for the Portfolio in COMM150
Description of Exercise: | A checklist with which students can determine that they are submitting proper content for the Process Essay, and meeting the presentation and assessment requirements for the Portfolio |
Objective: | To check-off each item that is a characteristic (component) of your Process Essay and the Portfolio |
Content in the Tracking Calendar & Outcome | Week 11: Process Essay in the Portfolio Outcomes 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, & 10 |
See the pages identified in the handout, “wks11-13_process_essay_format.” Bring textbooks to class as aide for a possible quiz question. | |
Assignment name: | wks11-13_checklist |
Background
The Process Essay with the remainder of the Portfolio is due in hardcopy during the Lab on the following dates: |
Monday section on July 26 |
Do the following TODAY :
· Complete a rough draft of the Process Essay;
· Put together your binder, sheet protectors, dividers, and labels for the Portfolio;
· Insert the earlier copies of essays with the instructor’s marks about writing/grammar corrections, and the re-typed versions with the corrections inside the portfolio; and
· Complete the Self-assessment form, and insert it into the Portfolio.
REMEMBER! If you need in-depth help, arrange an early appointment with the staff of the Pathways Center. Ask the instructor during the Lab to scan your work in order to catch some of the more notable errors or missing items
A late portfolio must go to the receptionist of the College during the late period identified on your handout. During the brief late period you assume responsibility for the failure of the third party in forwarding your portfolio to the instructor. All Portfolios must be in hardcopy. NO emailing this time.
Do not opt for the large deduction and risks associated with late work.
During the Lab today and TO BE READY FOR NEXT WEEK-you should complete these steps with the aide of the checklist on the next page:
o Work on the Process Essay;
o Place the Process Essay into the binder along with the revisions(THAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE DONE) of prior essays and their original marked copies;
o Place SmarThinking with each of your essays., and the revised Process Essay in response to the recommendations.
o Add any final remarks on the Student Self-assessment form; and
o Ask the instructor to check your Portfolio for completeness.
Checklist for the Process Essay and for the Portfolio
My check | To do for the Process Essay and for Submission of the Portfolio: | |
Process Essay  | The pages conform to the APA standard for page formatting, such as -- Margins are consistently one-inch; all lines and spaces between sections are double-spaced; the font is size 12 in Times New Roman; a running head appears in the upper Left corner of each page with page numbers in the Right corner of each page; bold-faced, primary section headings organize my discussion in three main sections of the Process Essay; and an Introduction & a Conclusion are added to the body of the essay. | |
The overall size of the Process essay is 5 pages for adequate detail (includes the title page and a page for References). The essay is saved with a file-name like “process essay” in my COMM150 folder on the S-drive. It is saved on a portable storage device, if I work on the essay off-campus. | ||
The first section of the Process Essay has a primary section heading, such as: Avoiding Plagiarism. I do the following -- · Explain the ways in which I would be careful to avoid plagiarism. · Describe some of the general APA rules, for providing in-text citations and References. Identify some essential elements inside an in-text citation and inside a Reference. · Explain the need for crediting a source, whether I quote or paraphrase content from the source. | ||
The second section of the Process Essay has a primary section heading, such as: U.S. Copyright Law & the Rights Given to Authors/Artists. I do the following – · Paraphrase the purpose of U.S. Copyright Law and identify the five rights given to authors/artists. · I avoid copy-and-paste from other handouts about copyright. | ||
The third section of the Process Essay has a primary section heading, such as: Following the Fair Use Guidelines. I do these things -- · Identify each of the four Fair Use Criteria to be followed, when I do not have an author’s permission to use her/his material. · Explain in my words what a fair use and an illegal use is for each of the Fair Use criteria: My Purpose; the Amount I take from an author; the Nature of the material I take from someone; & the Effect on the marketplace, when I take without permission someone else’s material. · Provide an example of how I would follow each of the four Fair Use Guidelines in my work at the College, or in the type of workplace for which I am training. | ||
I find on my own a source about plagiarism, copyright, or fair use. I use the source in my essay. The web site, which I choose to use in the essay, is different from one already included in a class handout, or to which a link was provided. I cite the source in-text and in a Reference in compliance with the models in my textbook and previous handouts for citing Web sites. | ||
I do not copy from the handouts. If I take content literally from a source of my own, I restrict the copied content to a maximum of one quoted sentence or three items from a list in the original source. I paraphrase the remaining ideas or facts of relevance in the original source. | ||
Acquiring extra credit for the Process Essay – 1. For three extra points -- I included a graphic related to my career area at the bottom of my title page. The image has a Creative Commons license with permission to use the image. (See the instructions on using Flickr on p. 5 of “wk10_plagiarism, copyright”., the hand out from last week.) o I cite the image in-text. See the illustrated title pages in your handouts for the format and content in the Process Essay. . o I provide a Reference for the image in my list of References. See the illustrated page of References in the handout, “wks11-13_process_essay_content,” or on p. 16 of APA Style Guide. IF I DON’T DO BOTH, I DON’T GET THE POINTS AT ALL. | ||
Portfolio  | The earlier Narrative and Descriptive essays have been revised in regard to grammatical errors in the text and in the annotations for the References of the Descriptive Essay. o The instructor noted some of the more important spots in the essays that need improvement. I made additional corrections, especially in the Process Essay, in order to show that I learned from prior incorrect writing errors. o If I omitted quotes for phrases and sentences taken from a source for an essay, I revised the essay so that I am quoting or paraphrasing properly. o If I quote more than one sentence per source, I paraphrase the extra sentences from the source. | |
I include the original Narrative and Descriptive essays with the instructor’s comments inside the portfolio. | ||
The Portfolio has four dividers with properly typed labels to separate the essays and the self-assessment inside an appropriately sized 3-ring notebook or other neat and secure binder. | ||
The Portfolio includes a completed form for Student Self-assessment at the end of the essays. |
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