1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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 present tense ► Acknowledgements ► 2-3 pages

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

7. Table of Contents I. Short Stories/ Title 5-30 1. I knew he was a strange man5 2. ‘And the noise grew louder…’15 3. The beginning of the end20 4. Never Again25 II. Poems/ Poetry/ Poet’s Corner31-41 1. When I Have Fears31 2. Oh Thou Shall Come31 3. Mourning32

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

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

13. 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

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