Module 1: The Journey of Self-Discovery
Introduction to the Digital Portfolio

Your digital portfolio will come together as a final product in the last module of this course. Hopefully, throughout the course you will come to see that writing is something that will impact you on a daily basis from your own private journals to writing emails and business letters. While some writing is personal, such as letter to a friend or to a private journal, much of what you write will be viewed by the public in some way. Can you think of other ways your daily writing will be viewed publicly? Writing such as emails, blog postings, or anything added to a social networking website are all great examples. You have probably already noticed that whatever you write needs to be edited and reworked in some way. A mark of a good writer is one who can critique and be critiqued by others with an open mind. As you develop your writing skills, you will be able to critique your own work as well as others' work in a more professional manner.