A late night attempt at preparing an outline for a portfolio was the victim of a crappy router. After failing to retrieve the outline I prepared this one. It made me feel better writing it, hope it works for you!
Portfolio Outline the Sequel.
“teh Burninator cut”
Cover Sheet & Introduction
•not as inspired as first idea.
•introduce myself and greet reader.
•not sure he wants a cover sheet but too bad.
Org Chart or TOC
•I would love an org chart. They are cool and color coding is bad ass.
•I might use a TOC because I lack the superior skills necessary to rock the org chart.
•at least one of them is required. Not sure he wants one but a 30 page document needs something.
Employment Op Section
•an overview and section title page. (He seems to like overviews). Explain as research results of tech writer industry article. Seems weak but I think the assignment was weak.
•barely edited job market research
User/Software Mesh Section
•an overview and section title page.
•letter of thanks from the owner of the travel agency I profiled. Coincidently my mom. My character assassination had the additional plus of suggesting some worthwhile changes in doc mgmt she plans on implementing.
•barely edited software analysis
•barely edited user profiles
•summary sheet tying section together
Lab Section
•an overview and section title page
•lab 4 is mysteriously absent and never referenced. In a bizarre twist, the base ten system is now base 9. Calculator salesmen rejoice.
•in an attempt to avoid blatant Earth hate I will compress all labs to 3 pages and really should remove individual title pages. I am worried that those ugly title pages are important.
•I will add screenshots to two labs. Unpredictability might just be my best weapon against him!
Blog Section.
•seems like after thought.
•1 page with short introduction of 1 or 2 paragraphs immediately followed by title list of ten blogs.
•in a pathetic attempt to assuage myself for having worked so hard on something that seems so unimportant I will choose a snazzy font for my titles. Something astounding!
Summary
•my mom(referenced above) always likes to remind me that kissing ass never hurts, I suspect my pride will sting but I still plan on writing a summary that tries to tie the portfolio together while thanking the reader.
•yah. That reader.
Appendix
•anyone that could pull off an ORG chart would obviously have appendixes.
•why isn’t it appendi? Psychic octopi have all the luck.
•a style guide?
•seriously something. Maybe just a list of things in my man purse.
Headers & footers
•all updated to reflect something cool.
•I think the Accent 2 ms word 7 page numbering will do just right.
Excellent! Time to fill in the bullets.