Portfolio Guidelines

The portfolio is designed to help you develop a practice of tracking search strategies, processes, and paths; taking appropriate notes, bibliographic information, and evaluations as you work; and developing an ability to assess what works and what doesn’t work in search processes. 

The portfolio will include

·        Your Research Log

·        Your Self-assessment Essay

Research Log (20 points)

As you conduct searches or discover new information or develop new ideas about information or the process of finding it, you will note that in a research log as you work.  You may keep it strictly for this class or you may also include research strategies, track bibliographic information, or include anything relevant for this or any other class.  The log should show

• how you conduct information searches
• what you discover
• the problems you encounter
• how you try to solve those problems
• how you grow as a researcher

You should add at least one entry to your research log every week for a minimum total of ten.  You will write and submit formal entries at least once a week. 

Self-assessment Essay (10 points)

This essay should

• address the course objectives listed in the syllabus and your assessment of your progress toward achieving them
• cite examples of items in your portfolio to illustrate your comments
• discuss your successes and your failures and how you worked towards solving them.  In searching for information, sometimes the wrong roads you take are as important as the right ones

This essay should be thoughtful and reflective. 

Your self-assessment essay is extremely important and will contribute to the overall understanding of your development and progress in this information literacy class.

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