Postmodernism, Palimpsest, and Portfolios: Theoretical Issues in the Representation of Student Work

College Composition and Communication Jun 2004

Postmodernism, Palimpsest, and Portfolios: Theoretical Issues in the Representation of Student Work

Kathleen Blake Yancey

Abstract

What we ask students to do is who we ask them to be. With this as a defining proposition, I make three claims: (1) print portfolios offer fundamentally different intellectual and affective opportunities than electronic portfolios do; (2) looking at some student portfolios in both media begins to tell us something about what intellectual work is possible within a portfolio; and (3) assuming that each portfolio is itself a composition, we need to consider which kind of portfolio-as-composition we want to invite from students, and why.

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2004-06-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc20042781
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality multilingual writers affect and writing

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