The Portfolio in Microbiology is a collection of readings, writings, and presentations designed to help you learn to research a topic and write about it. It also displays your efforts to excel in the course and gives you an opportunity to learn microbiology in a different mode. You pick the topic from contemporary microbiology. You can do a summary of an article in Discover magazine or The New York Times or Scientific American or Health or Newsweek or any other publication of substantial significance.
Magazines are available at the library and at newsstands.
You can do a book review of The Hot Zone or the Andromeda Strain or any other book with a microbiological overtone that piques your interest. The basic idea is to research and write about a topic of current interest in microbiology. It must be typed. The name of the article, author, and source should be included at the beginning of an article summary. A copy of the article would be helpful, if available.