The following response is from Taking Stock #1 in Portfolio Keeping for English 305 (Technical Writing). Most of the response applies to overall professional writing.
With previous writing classes, portfolios were more or less the same idea. All my works with revisions were clumped into a three-ring binder with a reflective memo or letter regarding my performance in the class and my expectations of my grades. Until last semester, I deemed this concept as typical of what a portfolio is. The Business and Professional Writing course I took last semester changed my idea of what a portfolio is. It’s not just everything I completed; it’s the best works and most representative pieces of my personality and abilities, with my writing skills on display.
To me a portfolio is a professional scrapbook. Scrapbooks keep only the good memories. I will do my best in this course. My expectations are to maintain my grades to graduate with honors and have a presentable and impressive portfolio for graduate school as well as the workforce.
The assignments I expect to be easy for me are the ones I have previously completed or have some background knowledge regarding purposes and construction.
I don’t have the widest range of vocabulary or greatest spelling abilities, but I feel confident about my writing and reading skills if I have grasped the concept well enough. Working with international people has helped me catch English idioms in speech, and it has helped steer me away from creative, flowery language when it is not appropriate.
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You certainly demonstrate a good working understanding of what portfolios are and what purpose they serve within this course. Portfolios are an especially effective tool for you to use at the end of your PWE program because it allows you to provide evidence of the various types of professional writing and editing skills that you've developed through your coursework and put to use in your internship.
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