Digital Rhetoric

English 8123

Web Portfolio Project

Due dates: Draft 2/26, Final version: 4/29

Purpose: To publish a website that should help you get a job and/or advertise your academic and professional excellence.

The web portfolio project will give you a chance to put your professional portfolio online. Ideally you will use this portfolio to get a job, to get into a PhD program, or for another impressive feat. You will apply web design and usability concepts from the class to create a clear, professional, easy to navigate, and usable site. There will be some required components to this site and some optional components.

Required Components for the final site:

• A main page/introduction page
• A professional bio page
• An online (html) CV and a printer-friendly CV created in another program (word, pdf, rich text, or some other “easy to open” format) OR a web résumé and printer-friendly résumé
• A Teaching Philosophy (or similar)

Optional Components:

• A Research Philosophy
• Examples of your work (can be included as links to Word or other types of documents)
• Example syllabi
• Example Assignments
• An Annotated bio of your work (could be abstracts for conference presentations, a more traditional annotated bib)
• Other things you think appropriate

Draft Portfolio

Worth 30% of the project. For the draft create your site design and navigation, along with draft forms of the required components. Do consider your audience, purpose, and context. Email me the link by 11:59:59 pm.

Final Portfolio

Worth 70% of the project. The final portfolio must have the required components listed above, plus at least 2 additional components (at least 7 pages). The tone and ethos must be appropriate for your audience. The content and interface should be professional, usable, and clear. Email me the link by 11:59:59 pm.