Overview
During the second semester of their senior year, all Marymount students will assemble a portfolio of work that they have written in Class X, XI, and XII. The goal of the writing portfolio process is to emphasize that writing is an ongoing process and in doing so to reinforce in students’ minds the understanding that excellent writing is the result of extensive drafting and revision.
The desired goal of writing is, of course, to create a product—a finished piece that engages a reader in any number of ways. To achieve this end, a writer participates in a remarkably complex process. At Marymount, we believe the process is twofold.
First, there is the individual piece of writing that goes through a process: an idea is
generated, the writer gathers more ideas related to the first idea, takes and organizes notes, drafts thoughts into sentences that gradually become essays, stories, or poems, revises, and revises again and again until the piece is completed…that is, until the writer is satisfied or relatively satisfied with the product. Second, there is also the process each writer goes through over time as she matures and becomes an increasingly proficient writer, a process that continues for as long as a person chooses to write.