Craftsmanship:

• Typography - treatment of font size and style support your design
• Balance of design - too much white space, not enough white space, graphics/picture placement
• Clean appearance - no white outs, no smeared pages, crisp pages, each page protected by page protector

• Portfolio statement clearly answers the question, "How do I want prospective employers to think of me and my work?"
• Each artifact has an annotation which tells a story about that artifact ( includes information about the context, content, conditions, and your role).
• Selection: Artifacts represent skills defined
• Language Mechanics - correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar

• Clarity - clean and informative
• Consistency of design - reader is able to easily access your work, consistent page layout
• Conciseness - no extra artifacts that don't support your message
• Professional quality - easily accessible, attractive and appropriate, no recycled class notebooks

• Portfolio cover
• philosophy statement
• purpose for portfolio
• table of contents (optional, but may be useful for larger portfolios)
• portfolio artifacts
• appendix and/or professional documents section for resumes, letters of reference, complete copies of work