Portfolio for Doctoral Candidacy

It won't come as a surprise that I've been doing a lot of reading about portfolios lately. Last night I picked up a couple of books I ordered from Barnes and Noble. One was Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. It's edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser. I've only read one paper from it- Portfolo for Doctoral Candidacy: A Veritable Alternative by Janice M Heiges. I wish I had found it before I did mine, although I don't know that it would have made much difference. In this paper, she writes about her experience in the early 1990s creating a paper portfolio. Ten years later, my experience was quite similar.