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Thursday, August 01, 2002
http://www.citejournal.org/vol2/iss2/english/article1.cfm THE Q-FOLIO IN ACTION: USING A WEB-BASED ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO TO REINVENT TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF INQUIRY, RESEARCH, AND PORTFOLIOS CARL A. YOUNG, Virginia Tech; MARGO A. FIGGINS, University of Virginia This article provides the results of our work in designing an electronic portfolio, the Q-folio (http://nmc.itc.virginia.edu/q-folio), to support the research and composing processes of our English education students at the University of Virginia. We discuss its benefits, provide a student example, suggest how such a tool might be useful in a variety of composing and research contexts, and consider some of its complications. Ultimately, the Q-folio is a tool that could support any course endeavor requiring students to ask generative questions, seek answers, think critically about them, and design a web-based presentation of the research findings, the intent being to reawaken the imagination to critical inquiry and reinvent traditional notions of research and composition portfolios....
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