Portfolios in Literature Courses: A Case Study

Jeff Sommers

doi:10.58680/tetyc19973828

ISSN: 0098-6291
E-ISSN: 1943-2356

Portfolios in Literature Courses: A Case Study
Author(s): Jeff Sommers
Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 24, Issue 3, Oct 1997, p. 220 - 224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/tetyc19973828
- Published online: 01 Oct 1997

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Asks if there is a place for portfolio assessment in the literature classroom. Finds that portfolios help students use writing to engage literary texts in multiple and productive ways, and offer opportunities to examine effects of the reading process over the course of the writing pieces. Argues for a particular kind of portfolio focusing on a single literary work.

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