In Unit 4 of the Engl301 Technical Writing course, students will assemble a portfolio of online assignments submitted throughout the course culminating in a web portfolio. This is the final assignment completed in the course and is used to showcase all of the content that students have completed.

This is certainly one of the more difficult assignments, although I didn’t think so at first. When I really started to organise all the work I realised that I was struggling to remember the content and the thinking that went into some of the assignments at the beginning. I had to work with my recorded reflections and previous outlines to recall some of the things I had learned while working on them. At this point I realised how important a job it is to record reflections and outlines, as no one will always remember these experiences.

But I really enjoyed the process of creating the portfolio, not only did it help me to remember what I had done all over again, but it also gave me new insights. Looking back at everything I’ve done in a few months and tying it all together has given me a clearer sense of my strengths and weaknesses and how I’ve progressed in my writing over the semester. The task of presenting such a piece of work also helped me to remember the effort I had put in to achieve the results.

I think of the online portfolio as a personal showcase of my work. It is important to have a creative design that is relevant to my professional background. As an environmental practitioner, I chose my own photographs of mountains and rivers as the background. The photo was taken in the National Forest where I used to work. I hope you will get a vague idea of where and what I work on from the first moment you enter the website through the atmosphere created by the portfolio.

All in all, it was a particularly rewarding and challenging piece of work to round off my Engl301 technical writing course0