Tables of Contents

This is one of the requirements of Portfolio format. It is basically there for the benefit of your advisor, or for record-keeping, or or for agents of our accrediting body (the Middle States Association), or indeed for anyone else who might want to browse through your work with knowing it inside out as you probably do.

Usually it is sufficient to list each of your academic sections along with the page number they start on. Since you can't number the pages until after everything else is written, the table of contents is usually the very last part of putting a Portfolio together, except perhaps the cover.

Outlines are sometimes excellent tables of contents. The Table of Contents of this Guide is really a working outline.

Workshop Discussion Sparks

Inspired and Creative

Do an extended Table of Contents along with (or instead of) the usual one. Under each line include descriptions of the contents, or a list of subtopics or something else to introduce the flavor of the section.

Rigorous Training

If this is something you really feel in need of extra work on, go to the library and check out a bunch of tables of contents, in books, magazines, etc; and look at their tables of contents as examples.

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