Anne selects a course from her short list of courses in the ‘Applications for Engineering' section of her e-Portfolio and calls up a Personal Statement template from the college e-Portfolio system, which can be populated either automatically or by her own requests with the following data:

• The Entry Profiles from her earlier investigation. This information forms a set of prompts relating to academic and on-academic requirements for the courses.
• Any assertions that she has previously made in this Personal Statement.

The template permits her to add her own commentary against the Entry Profile items. Each Personal Statement item can be marked as private to the student or for submission as part of the personal statement. Items for publication in the Personal Statement have stated word limits. Each Personal Statement item can optionally have links to other related items.

Anne adds two links from her statement that she attended master classes in Engineering at her local university, one to the part of the university website detailing the master classes, and one to a statement about the Electronic Engineering module in her Engineering A level course. She records a private note to herself to re-consider the wording of this section in the context of the applications to electrical as opposed to electronic engineering courses.

Anne reviews and revises the Personal Statement and saves it in the ‘Applications to Engineering' sub-section of her personalised web space. She follows this same process for 3 other courses in Electronic Engineering and for 2 courses in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the latter she saves in a new short list within a new e-Portfolio sub-section which she calls ‘Applications to Electrical and Electronic Engineering'.

She is happy with her work on the Personal Statements so far, but would like to discuss them with her tutor (and others) before finalising her plans.