What is a Portfolio Purpose a To showcase

What is a Portfolio? ►Purpose: a. To showcase your creative abilities in different genres b. Highlighting your talent of handling a range of topics and ideas.

A Portfolio Contains… ►A selection of your best work ► Complete and edited pieces ► Organised ► An sections of your individual work insight into your work

Features ► Cover Page ► Title ► Size ► Number of pages/ word count ► Organisation of Contents ► Separators

Your Portfolio ► Cover Page with a title ► Preface ► Table of Contents ► Neatly arranged sections of your work ► Illustrations ► Fillers ► Blurb

Preface ► Introduction to your work and portfolio ► What is creativity for you ► Your inspiration ► Why are you creating this portfolio ► What are its merits ► The process of creating it ► First person, personal point of view and tense ► Acknowledgements ► 2 -3 pages present

Table of Contents ► Preface ► Title of the sections ► Components of each section ► Page numbers (correct and verified)

Table of Contents I. Short Stories/ Title 1. I knew he was a strange man 2. ‘And the noise grew louder…’ 3. The beginning of the end 4. Never Again II. Poems/ Poetry/ Poet’s Corner 1. When I Have Fears 2. Oh Thou Shall Come 3. Mourning 5 -30 5 15 20 25 31 -41 31 31 32

Separators ► Markers ► One page containing the name of the section ► Content appears on the next page of the separator ► Can be creatively designed ► Does not contain a page number on it ► Other materials can be used

Illustrations and Fillers ► Empty space is not welcome ► Illustrations: pictures, sketches, caricatures, paintings etc to highlight the content ► Fillers: Jokes, in and out, behind a rickshaw, we heard it, quotations (humorous) ► NO PLAGIARISM

Blurb Printed on the back cover ► Information about the portfolio ► Contains responses of other readers and critics ► May contain a short summary ► Shows the popularity of the author ►

Content ► Short Stories ► Long Stories ► Poems ► Drama/ Play ► Prose/ Creative non fiction/ Essays ► Critiques ► Letters ► Autobiography/ Memoirs

► Interviews ► Travelogues ► Pictorial ► Collage ► Any other ideas of your own

Organising a Section ► Genre based ► Thematically ► Point of view For Example: Autobiography, memoirs and personal letters can be in one section ► Class assignments followed by new work or vice versa

Keep an eye on… ► Typing errors ► Tenses ► Correct word usage ► Overall presentation and outlook ► Uniformity of format ► Interest level ► Personal touch