Cover Letter: My First Time Taking Writing Class In College

Ever since I can remember, I’ve struggled with writing. It just wasn’t something that came natural to me and always resulted in a very uncomfortable process. Throughout this class, I have become more comfortable with writing and its components. Though, this is only writing 101, my skill level has increased immensely. Before starting this course, writing was uncomfortable and confusing, but towards the end, my knowledge has expanded and I can more comfortably take on the majority of writing assignments.

It’s hard to imagine that just ten short months ago I was sitting in a classroom building a spaghetti tower with no idea what a rhetorical analysis essay was or what the word anaphora meant. Now, just a couple of months later, I have read and analyzed six different novels, learned to write an argument, synthesis, and rhetorical analysis essay, expanded my lexicon of literary terms, and sat through a three hour AP exam. This class has not only given me the skills to master the AP exam, but it has also given me knowledge to succeed in future English courses and in life. Through this course, I have experienced unparalleled growth in my reading comprehension and writing abilities.

The Rhetorical triangle is a typical reference to the three logical interests recognized by Aristotle which consist of ethos, pathos, and logos. In the Rhetorical Triangle is formed by three sections: Speaker, Audience, and Context. For the Speaker element, you have to ensure that the audience knows your motive in your writing. In the audience element, it is essential that you know who are audience is to avoid mistakes in communication. Finally in the context or message element, you need to address the following questions “How was your information delivered?” and “What types of arguments did I use?” To be successful in your writing you must incorporate all three elements from the Rhetorical Triangle into your paper.

I was very astonished, when I went to the office hour the first time and asked my professor to give me some advice about my essay. At that time, I had no idea how to specify my topic and analyze my thesis, but my professor gave me lots of specific and arguable ideas that I had never thought of. Then, I started to realize that the ability I am supposed to learn from Writing 39B class is the way to do rhetorical analysis. During these ten weeks classes of Writing 39B, I make improvements on skills of doing rhetorical analysis as well as conveying my message to the reader effectively. To be more specific, I have learned how to analyze an essay from the

By thoroughly describing an average visit to a fast food chain, the author achieves to establish experience. By mentioning the structure of the establishment and its warmly inviting feeling it draws more customers. Thus, this increases profit.

Writing this class is really a challenge for me.I never thought I would spend so much time writing.This is something I've never had before.However, I will turn the impossible into a possibility in this semester, and I believe I can do it.Because there is a good saying that you don't try to see how you know you can't do it.It is true that I will complete my challenge in this semester and keep moving towards my goal.In the future, my goal is to be a good salesman, and this skill is absolutely indispensable.To convince a person, you have to present your own points of interest and strong empirical evidence that you are right.Writing this class is the best way to strengthen this skill.I want to talk about how I grew up in writing and how much skill I learned.I'm going to tell you what I have encountered in writing and what challenges I have and how I overcame him.There are three challenges that I find difficult.At the beginning, the Internet quotes a strong and powerful argument to support my article with the use of grammar and paragraph architecture.

This semester has taught me a lot about the different types of writing. I have learned how to draft and compose a rhetorical analysis based off of an author’s ethos, pathos, and logos strategies. Not only have I been able to critically analyze rhetorical papers, but I have been able to search for more information to support my ideas or beliefs. Even though this can be time consuming it is well worth it to have a lot of support and evidence to back my ideas or beliefs on a topic. Throughout this semester I have more of a general knowledge on rhetorical goals, critical reading and writing skills, my processes on how to write a paper, and learning a new way of creating an idea through electronical environments.

The assignments in this class have allowed me to improve a great deal from where I began. Firstly, the assignments have taught me to properly cite my sources using MLA format, something I wasn’t familiar with before. In addition to this, analyzing the texts given allowed me to realize that rhetorical choices are everywhere and aren’t useless as I thought before. I can now locate rhetorical choices in newspaper ads

This class has been a stepping stone to my accomplishments as a writer. Over the course of semester, I have been challenged to tackle several different writing styles and succeed in each one in a unique way. It is through the rhetoric, technology, research, and collaboration used in this class that has progressed me as a writer and an individual.

I found all reading assignments for this class enjoyable. They are very helpful for us to grow as a writer. I still remember when I was struggling with understanding the poems that we have to read for the class at the beginning of the quarter, where I have to go online and search for some translations in order to understand the author’s purpose. However, after you introduced the four different elements of rhetoric: Speaker, Audience, Context, and Purpose, it made the reading easier to understand. For example, the poem “The Georgics of Virgil,” I was confuse about the purpose at first, but after you patiently teach us on finding the audience and context, I was able to get connected with the author’s purpose. I realized this idea also goes for writing. If I am able to identify the specific audience for my paper, then I can make my purpose more clear. The way you presented the idea and organized the four elements, as you can see in my notes, was a great model for me to emulate for my future reading and writing

This course has helped me enhance my writing abilities and display the rhetorical purpose of my essays. Coming from Lebanon, this course has definitely been a challenge, yet I believe I have learned a great deal this semester. This course encouraged me to engage in ideas of my own that I discovered throughout my writings. The articles I have read challenged me intellectually allowing me to view a writer’s perspective on a specific topic. The engagement with my classmates and the feedback given during this class gave me the opportunity to extend my thinking abilities. The two main techniques that I have learned this semester is; identifying the purpose of my writing, integrating evidence from my articles and supporting my statements.

Through this assignment, I have learned some new writing skills and recalled some of the writing strategies I learned from my previous writing courses at UC Davis. For instance, I learned that free-write is a good technique in writing because it allows writers to write down all their ideas without judging them. I will definitely apply this technique in my future assignments not only in this course, but also other courses that require me to write.

I can still remember my heart pounding out of my chest. It was my first time in Writing 1, and my nerves were mostly the result of a friend’s advice. Winter quarter, my friend told me about her struggles in her writing class and she advised me not to take Professor Bernstein for Writing because as she said “he is really tough and a very hard grader.” However, I had no other option but to take writing with Professor Bernstein because all the other writing 1 classes conflicted with my schedule. Nevertheless, nine weeks have past since I first stepped foot in Writing 1, and I can certainly say that I have learned more than I ever expected. Yes, it is true, this class has been a challenge like no other, especially for me, being that English is

Writing in your class has been appropriately challenging so far. I feel like I am being pushed further as a writer, improving my skills so one day I’ll be able to use them. It has not been extremely easy for me to write stuff for your class, as some of the assignments are harder for me than others.

Before English 1103, I was able to read passages and comprehend the general message. Oftentimes during seminars, I would realize that I missed important details that altered the meaning of the text and the perception of a character. Overall I was not an in-depth reader and lacked the skills to do so. The introduction to Notice and Focus and So what/And so required me to find a quote that caught my attention then voice my opinion. In addition to ranking them of importance and why I selected them. These strategies gave me the steps towards thinking about the passage sentence by sentence and then holistically. By doing so I began to develop a foundation to enhance my perception of the passage. The Rhetorical Triangle is another strategy that heighten