For your second project for the class, you will construct a web site that presents you and your work. This web site, or webfolio, will present you as a professional writer and showcase your writing and design skills. Essentially, you are constructing an online professional ethos for yourself, so you will have to consider your site from a rhetorical perspective. A webfolio (alternatively termed online portfolio or web portfolio) is not only a good way to highlight your talents when it comes time to look for a job; it also presents you as a professional by collecting the most representative samples of your writing abilities. Hopefully, you will update and add more sample documents to your webfolio as you progress through the Professional Writing program.

There are a few basic requirements for this assignment:

Beyond these basic requirements, I am leaving the project open to your interpretation. Perhaps you will want to include a weblog as part of your site or you might want to add other features to it. Perhaps you will include outside interests or information. In short, this is your chance to develop a professional ethos on the web that will represent you and your work as best as possible.

When you turn in this assignment to me for review, I ask that you also submit an email message that specifically details the rhetorical choices you made as you composed this project. You will need to address what kind of ethos you tried to develop through the site design and the information you included.

Here are a couple of lists of sample student portfolios you might examine:

Here are some sites by professional writers of various sorts who have a professional web presence:

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