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Final ePortfolio Expectations and Guidelines


(30 points)
These final ePortfolio guidelines are written within the terms and issues related to digital rhetoric. It is your
turn to not only analyze digital rhetoric but to DO IT! You really wont be adding new content since you have
already done the work. At this point, you are mostly crafting the design and usability of your ePortfolio.

Your ePortfolios Use of Strategic Repetition
You guide your audience strategically and often through the content of your website
1) You have a Table of eContents (on the landing page/home page) that lists each Top Tab of the
ePortfolio. Each title is weblinked to that tab in the ePortfolio. Each weblinks works accurately.

2) You create a title, Table of eContents, with wordart, bannermaker, etc on your page so that we can see
right away that this is your overall contents page. The page, in general, is visually attractive and
consistent.

3) You offer a 2-3 sentence overview of the purpose and content of each weblinked title in your Table of
eContents.

4) You create a first page on your Digital Rhetorics Top tab, Digital Justice Top tab, and Digital
storytelling top tab that gives a 2-3 sentence overview of the purpose and content of that tab (you can
use what you write for the Table of eContents).

5) You offer a 200-word (MAX) overview of ePortfolios content and purpose on the page with your
Table of eContents


Your Design and Visual Philosophy (Pathos)
You use the very look of your ePortfolio to communicate your message and purpose.
6) Your background image and header relate well; the colors (font, main container) all relate and offer a
meaningful and interesting message. The look of your site is part of its message.

7) You do not have an empty webpage ANYWHERE. You have an icon in the directory and the
required privacy settings.

8) You do have paper headings and titles on any webpage. Where you have a page title, you use
wordart, bannermaker, or digications table-maker.

9) You do not use big chunks of words without breaking that up with images (left or right-justifed) that
speak to your content.

10) You do not have floating images anywhere and do more with images and videos than simplistically
post them at the top or bottom of a webpage.


Your Sites Persuasiveness and Credibility (Ethos)
You present a site that shows your knowledge and depth of web design as rhetoric AND genre.
11) You use at least two weblinks on every page (excluding your About this Site and landing page).
These links show that you make intellecual connections to other web sources that go beyond the super-
easy-to-find spaces like wikepedia, youtube, about.com, etc.

12) Whenever you reference a video or analyze a video, you EMBED the youtube video right on the
webpage; readers do not have to link anywhere because you KNOW how to make a video flow with
your words. Your videos are sized to fit on the page and you keep the video sizes consistent.

13) You know how to work with images and make them flow with your words. You have the skill to
know how to insert an image in the body of every webpage (the is right or left justified, not just easily &
weirdly pasted in the center)

14) You do not have weird gaps and empty spaces on your webpages. You have paid attention to your
formatting.

15) You write your words in digital essay format, not as a series of bullets. You do not reference
assignments or classes. No one has to attend John Jay or take your classes to understand WHAT THE


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HELL you are taking about.
16) You do not just write in big chunks. You use paragraphs. You double-space between paragraphs
and do not use indebting (the tab button does not indent so there is no consistency in your spacing that
way).

17) You have proofread and copy-edited your entire site closely, working to remove typos such that are
VERY FEW, if any, left.


Your Sites Usability (Logos)
You create a site that is easy to navigate. You are well-organized with strong, digital sense-making.
18) You lay out the titles in your top tabs in a logical order that you also explain in your Table of
Contents. It is easy and clear to understand what is what.

19) You create titles for top tabs that are clear. Your audiences have a sense what is in the tab just by
the title of it.

20) You use citations across your site: you either weblink back to a source OR you use correct, APA
in-text citations and bibliography.

21) You have at least 5 top tabs (the landing/homepage & contact pages do NOT count). You have
at least 3 left tabs in EACH top tab to make your site deeply layered and extensive.

22) You submit your Eportfolio on May 15, before class begins, by following the SUBMIT button on
your ePortfolio settings. At that time, you also change the privacy settings from PRIVATE to
VIEWABLE WITHIN JJAY or COMPLETE PUBLIC ACCESS.


Your Sites Kairos
Your reflective writing offer critical context of the time, place, and mindset of your sites life.
23) You create a new tab just for final reflections that is also included in your Table of eContents (for
those who extended their 101 ePort, just add on to the reflections section you already have). The
positioning of this new tab is logical.

24) You create a webpage that just tells the story of your ePortfolio. This means that you write a
STORY (Pretend your ePortfolio is a person. How would it describe itself and how it has grown?)

25) You create a wepage that discusses the writing(s)/project(s) that you are most proud of, where
you think your did your best, and why.

26) You create a webpage that reflects on the following: 1) What are you most proud of now that
you have finished with this year of college? What are your goals for next year? (Be sure to look at
the course website---Digirhetorics.org--- that gives you ideas of Sophomore opportunities, etc).


Institutional Discourse
Some things must appear on your ePort because the department says so. You need interesting, digital
presentations of these items that attract an audience vs. comply to institutions.
27) You have three draft galleries
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using the TILE function of the GALLERY module (all ENG 201
students must place drafts in their portfolios). You have at least 4 images in each gallery. The title
in your left tab makes it clear that this is a draft gallery.

28) Each of your reflections is at least 500-words long and has a right- or left-justified image
embedded with the flow of the words.

29) You do not work Carmens last nerve with whining, co-dependency, immaturity, endless
excuses, or any other such foolishness.

30) You made this ePortfolio YOURS and did not let the teacher or the institution get in the way of
what you have to say and what/who you want to represent to the world. YOU ARE A DIGITAL
RHETOR, not just another college student doing just another school assignment.




Final Score (out of 30)



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You need a draft gallery for the following THREE projects: 1) the digital rhetorics tab (features your collaborative essay and other essays);
2) your digital justice tab (features your website, prezi, etc); 3) your digital storytelling tab (features your video, soundtrack, etc.)

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