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Portfolio of Work

W310 PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT

How should the portfolio be organized?

Organizing your work
Tips on presentation

Organizing your work
You can organize your work a number of ways:

categorized by type of project

categorized by the skills demonstrated

ordered by your estimation of the work's quality

ordered by the relevance of the work to your goals

Whatever organization plan you use, pick one and stick to it. The reviewers of your portfolio will be looking to see if it is organized consistently and clearly. Consider including a Table of Contents, and make sure the organization of the portfolio is reflected in it.
You may decide to order your work by relevance or by quality, and provide an indicator on the annotation pages of the specific skills the work demonstrates. This method allows you to organize the portfolio on two levels, without adding so much complexity that viewers are confused or distracted by the organization scheme itself.
Many professional portfolios are constructed with the resume in the back. If you chose to put your resume in the back of your portfolio, you should put some identifying information in the front of the portfolio, and you should turn in another copy of your resume with the required materials that accompany your portfolio.

Tips on presentation
Left-hand and right-hand pages

Right-hand pages should never be left blank.

Left-hand pages may be left blank.

Annotation should start on right-hand pages, not lefthand pages.

Whole documents

As a general rule, avoid including whole documents.

Choose meaningful excerpts from documents.

If you include a whole document, you may punch it and bind it directly into the portfolio. If your role on the project was specific to certain sections of the document, highlight those sections.

Another option for including a whole document is to bind it separately from the portfolio, and indicate in the annotation that the document is available (either in the back of the portfolio or on request).

Adapted from the Portfolio Expectations Created by Elizabeth Boling

Right-hand pages should never be left blank.
Left-hand pages may be left blank.
Annotation should start on right-hand pages, not lefthand pages.

As a general rule, avoid including whole documents.
Choose meaningful excerpts from documents.
If you include a whole document, you may punch it and bind it directly into the portfolio. If your role on the project was specific to certain sections of the document, highlight those sections.
Another option for including a whole document is to bind it separately from the portfolio, and indicate in the annotation that the document is available (either in the back of the portfolio or on request).