1) Yancey says that portfolios have three key characteristics: longitudinal in nature, diverse in nature, almost always collaborative. While I agree with the first point, I don’t know that they have to be diverse or collaborative. Do you think they have to be diverse and/or collaborative?
2) How do we teach genre to students for fake genres such as the literacy narrative? Simply by acknowledging it is not a real genre and providing examples from past students? Inspire they do something "new"? Have them guess? Put together what they know about literacies and/or narratives? Hmmm.
Hey Joel,
ReplyDeleteSo as far as diversity goes, I think that a good portfolio is one that will be diverse, even if portfolios don't necessarily have to be diverse. They are meant to show the breadth and depth of an artist's or professional's abilities. And if they are a collection of the same basic things they might fall under a different genre. Such as, a collection of opinion essays may instead be a blog or some relative thereof, or a collection of their nature photography would better represent a gallery rather than a portfolio. But it seems like a fine line to walk. As for collaboration, I was confused too. Perhaps by that she means a collaboration between student and professor as the professor informs and critiques their various drafts? I'm not certain.