Yancey summary

Yancey is a professor of English and wrote an article on the writing assessment through print and electronic portfolios. She mentions the term Ecology many times throughout her article. Ecology is the study of living organisms and how they interact with other organisms in their environment. Ecology relates to the importance of digital or print because the term helps to understand the difference between the two types of portfolios more clearly. An electronic portfolio displays a “…ecology of composing and composer.” Meaning to take all the written drafts and compiling them into one digital print. On the other hand, a finished print portfolio has a curricular ecology. The print model is more social, persuasive, and has more interaction in the classroom of drafting and redrafting. Rather than a single draft directed toward a one person audience. As portfolios change from print to digital, text is more visible to read and the technique has helped exercise the visual and verbal mind.