Cover Letter

Dear Professor,

            Since the medium of communication in each course is writing, it is important for us to know how to write well and communicate our ideas clearly and that was made possible by ENGLCOM’s reading and writing component. For the past 14 weeks, you taught us how to construct essays effectively. We have been through a critical process in writing essays and revising them to reduce flaws and make them perfect. Expressing yourself is not enough but you have to follow rubric in order to achieve a good composition. Writing is not really my area of expertise. With ENGLCOM RWC, it deepened my knowledge in this field.

In our first meeting, you introduced us to the things we need to accomplish until the end of the term. One of which is to create and maintain our own blog. It gave us the opportunity to convey what we have learned in class and express our own feelings. Throughout the weeks we’ve been together, our task was to write essays and paragraphs of various kinds and put in it. But before publishing our masterpiece, you always ask us to make an outline and make our first and final draft. After which, you told us to critique our peers’ work in order to analyze different kind of writing styles and their strengths and weaknesses. Plagiarism is a big no-no in writing so you never fail to tell us that we need to use citations. Moreover, you always tell us that Wikipedia is not a credible source. This has been our routine every Tuesday and Friday.

            From this routine, I honed myself in learning how to become an effective communicator, critical and creative thinker, reflective lifelong learner and service-driven citizen through writing and revising. My essays are the proof that I achieved these attributes. Although I must say that I had a wee bit hard time coping and moulding my skills in becoming a critical and creative thinker. Thanks to ENGLCOM and your tips, bit by bit, I learned to organize my ideas for clarity, conciseness, and coherence and improved myself in other aspects of writing. Because of this, flaws and grammatical errors in my outputs decreased.

The extended definition was one of the evidence of my acquired skills. Knowing the content of my topic was easy for me to construct all the words in my head and write it down on paper. Facebook is a very interesting topic since almost all of us use the Internet everyday and visiting a social networking site has been a part of our daily routine. I got mine way back 2007 and as the years passed by, there are 800 millions of viewers Facebook have and has been trending ever since. I learned that in order to have an effective essay, one must know how to address it to the audience, what purpose and strategy should one have, how to organize the paragraphs, in what kind of style should the essay be written, and its presentation, which is about its spelling and grammar. You taught me the importance of all the attributes we needed to acquire. Thanks to you and according to your comments in my drafts, I can say that I have improved in this field.

             

           Writing is an unending trend, therefore, what I learned in class would be really useful not just in this class but for the purpose of everyday life. I am thankful to have you as my professor in this course. You made me who I am today, in terms of writing. I may not be as good as poets who can deeply express theirselves in writing poems and the like with matching extraordinary vocabularies, but I would like to thank you for knowledge you shared to us. Thank you for giving us the chance to meet you and I hope to see you in the near distant future or around the campus.