| English Composition | Spring 2009 | Palomar College |
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The major portion of your grade for the course (60%) will be based on your individual portfolio of essays that you submit at the end of the semester. You need to write 6,000 words of essays during the semester to meet the minimum requirements of the course; however, your portfolio need only contain 4,000 words of text.
It may consist of the essays you have previously written. Or it may consist of revised or expanded versions of some or all of your essays. In other words, you have a great deal of freedom in deciding what your portfolio will consist of. You obviously will want to select your best material for your portfolio, and you will want to revise the material in your portfolio more thoroughly than the essays you choose not to include in it. The 4,000 words is a minimum not a maximum; your portfolio may be longer.
Your portfolio will be saved on the server as a separate file, in addition to your original four essays. So you will need to save the portfolio as a new document. (You will also need to create a new link on your table of contents page. See the bottom of this page.) The easiest way to do this is to copy and paste the title and text of each of your essays into a new document. Make sure you omit any introductory material such as your name, the date, or the class name. Your name only needs to appear once at the top of the document. Make sure as well that you copy your entire essay and the thesis statement and list of works cited into the portfolio. When you finish, you should have a large document with, usually, three essays. At the very top of the document center the heading
Under that, also centered, put the heading
Beneath the Table of Contents heading paste in the title of each of your essays, in the order they appear in the portfolio.
After you have the Table of Contents, you then need to create links to the titles of your individual essays. I will describe how to do this in Microsoft Word. If you have another word processing program or Web page editor and need guidance on how to do this, contact me individually.
First, you need to create bookmarks for each of the titles of your essays. To do this, select the title, not in the Table of Contents list but the title that appears at the top of the essay. After you have selected the title of the essay go to the Insert menu at the top of the page and click on it. (Or in Office 2007, click on the Insert icon at the top of the page.) Go almost to the bottom of the drop-down menu to find Bookmark and click on it. You will get the Bookmark dialogue box. In the Bookmark Name line type a word that will be the bookmark for this essay, usually the first major word of the title. For example, if your title were “The Lifestyle of the Amoeba,” you might select the word “lifestyle.” Then click OK. Then scroll down to the title of your next essay and go through the process again, making sure to use a different word for each bookmark. If there is any room for confusion, note down the label you have given each essay so that you don't get them mixed up in the next step.
Second, you need to create links in your Table of
Contents that point to the bookmarks you have created.
Go to the top of the document, and select the first title in your Table
of Contents. Then click on the
Insert menu, go to the very bottom and click on Hyperlink (or press Control-K).
You will get the Insert Hyperlink dialogue box.
On the right side, next to the large box listing URLs, you will see a
button that says Bookmarks. Click
the Bookmarks button. You will see
a box displaying a list of the bookmarks you have created.
Click on the one that refers to the essay that you have selected the
title of, click OK, then click OK again. Then
select the title of the next essay and repeat the process.
It is then a good idea put a link at the bottom of each essay to go back up to the top of the document. To do this, first create a bookmark at the top of the page. Select your name at the very top of your portfolio, then click Insert>Bookmarks and add a bookmarks named "top." Then just type a phrase such as Back to Top at the very end of each essay, select it, then click Insert>Hyperlink. Click the Bookmarks button in the Hyperlink dialogue box and click on "top." Once you have created a Back to Top link, you can simply copy it and paste it in at the end of each essay.
Always check the links you have created by opening your document in the browser and clicking on all of the links to make sure they work.
When you save your portfolio, make sure you save it as a Web page (or HTML).
Name the file with your last name. By saving it as a Web page, the program you save it in should automatically insert the suffix .htm. So the file name should appear (assuming you are Heather Brown):
brown.htm
Use only lower case letters.
Upload it to the server at Palomar by ftp. Refer to the FTP Instructions for details.
If you have not created a new link on your main table of contents page you will need to do that. You can simply copy and past your existing table of contents into a word processing document, then add the heading Portfolio at the bottom of the list, below Essay 4. Create a hyperlink with your Web address and your last name followed by .htm. In other words, you can just paste in the filename of one of your essays and delete the number. Then save this new table of contents page as default, and as a Web page, and upload it to replace the existing default page. You can do this at the same time as you upload your portfolio.
If you have any questions, please send me e-mail.
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