Portfolios

Teaching the Literacy Narrative

There’s a lot going on at the beginning of the term, and we appreciate WR instructors carving out a little time to assign the Writing Program’s common literacy narrative assignment, which is a key part of all students’ cumulative portfolios. One goal of the assignment is to get students thinking flexibly about literacy and language […]

Reflective Writing Activities

All WR courses should offer students regular and varied opportunities for reflection, including personal, metacognitive, and social/systemic reflections that instructors assign as in-class activities and/or for homework throughout the term. Each semester, WR students will choose three of these reflections for inclusion in their cumulative portfolios. Below you will find ideas and examples that can […]

Creating and Updating WR Portfolios

These videos will help students create WR portfolios using Digication. Be sure to check out the FAQs that follow, too! Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 FAQs What is Digication and why are we using it? Boston University licenses digital portfolio software through Digication (http://bu.digication.com). Digication is free (and ad-free) for BU students, it protects […]

Cumulative Portfolios in the Writing Program

Since Fall 2023, all WR students create a portfolio in their first WR course and continue to add to it throughout subsequent WR courses. This cumulative portfolio assignment will create a shared experience for WR students, offering them a space to reflect on their growth and their developing identities as college writers and communicators over […]

Metacognition

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]