Writer’s Website 
 
Overview: ​The ​writer’s website​ assignment is designed to showcase your understanding of multimodal rhetoric and web 
design, and to help you consider your personal and academic achievements in a real-world, academic context. ​Websites 
like these​ are used by writers to (1) keep track of their progress in a given field of study, (2) reflect on their developing 
achievements in that field, and (3) to provide concrete evidence of those achievements to future instructors, mentors, 
employers, publishers, etc. Therefore, the purpose of this assignment is multi-faceted. In its several parts, you will: 
 
● represent the best of the work you’ve done as a writer, reader, and critical thinker 
● remediate that work for a web use using multiple modes of communication (textual, visual, digital etc.) 
● reflect on your accomplishments and how they display your achievement of ​WPA outcomes​ and course goals 
 
Required Elements of the Site 
ENG 101 Writer’s Website  ENG 102 Writer’s Website 

● Home  ● Home 
● About the Author  ● About the Author 
● About the Site  ● About the Site 
● Writing Project 1  ● Writing Project 1 
● Writing Project 2  ● Writing Project 2 
● Writing Project 3  ● Writing Project 3 
● Portfolio Reflection  ● Portfolio Reflection 
 
Part 1. About the Author (author picture and biographical statement: (~150 words) 
 
Directions:​ Write a biographical statement about yourself. Rather than highlighting your personal and social life, the 
statement you compose should display your academic, work, and community service experiences. Considering the 
context of this course, it would make sense to highlight your skills as a reader, writer, and critical thinker. 
 
Audience:​ Like other elements of your site, your author bio should appeal to an academic/professional audience.  
 
Form and Content​: This author bio should be placed in a page titled "About the Author". Consider the following 
conventions as you compose/revise your author bio: 
 
● Write about yourself in third-person (s/he). To achieve a more objective and formal tone, describe yourself and your 
achievements the way someone else would. 
● List your achievements in the following order: 1.) most recent-->past, 2.) education-->interests-->work-->service, 3.) 
most significant-->least significant, etc. 
● Focus on experiences related to your academic achievements and professional goals. 
 
Part 2. About the Site: (~150 words) 
 
Directions​: Provide a statement that explains the purposes of your website, frames your content, and orients readers to 
the organization of your website.  
 
Audience:​ Like other elements of your site, your author bio should appeal to an academic/professional audience.  
 
Form and Content​: This site statement should be installed in a page titled "About the Site". You may want to cover the 
following elements and questions: 
 
● Purpose:​ Why am I crafting this website? What will its purpose be? What are my short and long term goals for 
creating this website? 
● Audience:​ For whom am I creating this website? What are my different audiences' expectations? (For each imagined 
audience/context, consider the appropriate tone of voice, formatting conventions, level of formality, diction, etc.) 
● Context:​ How and where will I use my Website? (i.e. circumstances and situations: interviews, applications, advising, 
mentorships, classes, personal/professional development, self/performance evaluation, etc.). What are the 
parameters and boundaries determined by your audiences and purposes? 
● Structure & Form:​ How will I organize my website? Which organizing principle makes the most sense given my 
purpose and audience? 
 
Part 3. Writing Projects and Remediation 
 
Each of the major assignments written this semester for class should be installed into your writer's website. Each project 
should have its own page that is clearly labelled in the navigation bar. These revised versions of your essays should 
demonstrate your consideration of the course material including readings and concepts such as genre, audience, and 
rhetorical situation. The design of each page should also exemplify your understanding of digital communication and 
how image, sound and video can be rhetorically influential and persuasive. 
 
Each writing project should include the following elements (either in their own subpages or in the project main page): 
○ A project introduction (i.e. a revised “abstract” suitable for readers on the web) 
○ The final draft (full text) and the rough draft (may be attached as a file) 
○ Revision Statement (if applicable) 
■ ~200 word statement: What did you change? Why? How does your revision constitute an 
improvement of your original draft? 
○ Assignment details 
 
Remediated essays should abide by the conventions for web reading and formatting (e.g. single-spaced, no indentation, 
use of hyperlinks, video, audio, and images, etc.). Overall, the writing project pages should be designed with a consistent 
style and use of elements (e.g. regular font style and size, common layout, common color scheme, and so on). 
 
Part 4: Portfolio Reflection (1000-1500 words) 
 
Overview​: ​For the reflection portion of WP4, you will compose a 1000-word portfolio reflection. In this statement you 
will reflect on your personal understanding of writing as it matters to you. Reflection allows you the opportunity to 
process knowledge and then apply that knowledge. In doing this, you can come to understand your experiences and 
interpret what it is you have learned through them. This semester we have used reflection in this way. In the final 
assignment you will use reflection to analyze and interpret your learning process. Over the semester, you have had the 
opportunity to create a knowledge base of writing and its practices.  
 
Form and Content​: The portfolio reflection should be installed in a page titled "WP4: Portfolio Reflection”. This final 
reflection will help you finalize that theory. In doing so you will explore the following questions: 
 
1. What is your understanding of writing? What is writing to you?  
2. What was your understanding of writing coming into this course? How has that understanding evolved? 
3. What has contributed the most to your overall understanding of writing? 
4. What is the relationship between your current understanding of writing and what you may still need to learn? 
5. How might your understanding of writing be applied to other writing situations both inside the classroom and 
outside the classroom?  
 
Your reflection should be informed by your literacy practices, the learning outcomes of the course, and should suggest 
how your prior experiences with writing have prepared you for future engagement with personal, academic, professional, 
and civic occasions for writing.  
 
Your reflection should be supported with concrete evidence (i.e. quotes, examples, screenshots, anecdotes, and other 
examples) from your semester’s work and your writing process.