Best of Miami Portfolios 2001 - Units.muohio.edu

Essential Instructions
Papers written in class or out of school, including college application essays, are acceptable. Papers
should be revised after being returned by a teacher.
Arrange your portfolio in this order:
• completed information form
• reflective letter
• narrative or short story
• explanatory, exploratory, or persuasive essay
• response to a text
For any one piece of writing (not all four pieces), include and label all draft material and paperclip
it to the end of the appropriate essay. Portfolios lacking draft material will not be scored.
(Notecards will not be accepted.)
Your name, hometown, school, and teacher’s name cannot appear anywhere in any of the portfolio
pieces (including your reflective letter), and all your writing must be free of teacher’s marks,
grades, and comments. This does not include your draft materials.
Do not staple or bind your portfolio. Paper clips are okay.
Your completed portfolio, not counting works cited pages and draft material, should not exceed 12
typed, double-spaced full pages (8.5”x11”) using a 12-point font. If your four pieces total more than
12 pages, your portfolio will not be read. The strongest portfolios tend to range in length from 10
to 12 pages.
All materials must be mailed on or before June 3, 2002, by your supervising teacher— the teacher
most familiar with the pieces in your portfolio. This teacher must sign the Portfolio Information
Form documenting that all writing in the portfolio is your own. You also sign the form.
The portfolio submission fee is $28, more if you earn credit, and you will receive a $10 gift
certificate from an Oxford area bookstore. You will be billed later so do not send payment with
your portfolio. Results will be mailed at the end of June. Results will not be given over the phone.
Portfolios must be postmarked by June 3, 2002, and sent to:
Portfolio Writing Program
Department of English
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
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