This weeks reading deal with the revisions process of our portfolios and how we can make each document ready for our portfolios. I personally found that this reading really helped with what I should or should not include in my portfolio, and it also gave me ideas as to the revisions I could make to my work. There was a quote in the reading that really summed the whole revision process up for me. It said, “We believe that life and experience are acts of revision. So when you face your documents again, hopefully you will be able to see them through the critical eye of your accumulated knowledge and experience” (PTPC 61). I couldn’t agree more. As PWE majors, we have experienced a lot and those things we have learned and picked up along the way are all building blocks that have made us the students we are today. I’ve done portfolios in most of my other PWE courses, and every time I find myself editing more and making significant revisions to every document.

The chapter also focused on reshaping our documents so that their purposes are geared towards our target audience. We have to take in consideration that there could be other people looking at our portfolios other than our classmates and Professor Jones. Since I definitely want to use this portfolio for future endeavors, I definitely want it to be something I can use to get myself a job. Now obviously I will have to keep my portfolio up to date and revise it as I continue to do new projects and progress further in my career, but this whole concept of  gearing our portfolios towards an audience is crucial because we need our portfolios to connect with our target audience.

Content is clearly an important aspect we have to consider when we are doing revisions for our portfolios. What we include or get rid of can make all of the difference. We have to consider everything we are including in our portfolios and their purpose. Since most of my internship involved social media, it wouldn’t make sense for me to include a newsletter that I took no part of. The items we include have to show what we have learned and assess our writing skills and our progress over the semester. It’s going to be hard to decide what to include or what to leave out of our portfolios but I definitely have a better idea with the direction I want to go after reading this chapter and our discussion in class on Thursday. I want my portfolio to illustrate the work I’ve done so far but I also want it to show that I have a personality that would benefit any company I work for. Like the book said, “You want to be seen as professional and knowledgeable” (PTPC 66).