Kennepeum (welcome) to Advanced Portfolio Workshop! This course is a capstone experience Writing and Writing Studies. As a course, it is designed to help you move from the student writer you are now to the professional writer that you will become in whatever profession you choose. In many ways, this course is designed to help you prepare for the next chapter of your writing career. That means you will take seriously the difficult work of being a writer. As such, you will have time to reflect on all you have learned about writing, what you have written to date and consider what comes next for you and your writing. Further, you will be expected to develop the discipline of a working writer, to read other writers, to hone your craft through revision, and to create a portfolio—a polished collection of work—which can be read by publishers, graduate schools, or employers.