Cover Letter

30 April 2012

Alie Shipkowski

Cover Letter

English Department

East Fifth Street

Greenville, NC, 27858

Dear Professor Tetterton,

I decided to edit my project 2 blog for my e-portfolio.  In my blog, I discussed the issue of bullying in high schools against teenagers in the LGBT community.  I started off by re reading all of my blog entries out loud to see if I could remove any extra words or grammar mistakes I missed earlier.  I fixed a lot and in the process found some incomplete sentences which became complete after the revision process.  The annotated bibliographies were also changed so more details and reasoning were put behind what was said.  I feel like my blog entries are much better than they were before and hope to get a better grade.  A lot of the revisions that were made were from the comments that you had made on my original blog. I wanted to say thank you for the constructive criticism, it helped tremendously and I started to open up more with my writing instead of being so strict.

This year in English 1200, I really opened up in my writing and spoke my opinion more when it was necessary. The first paper we were assigned was a research-based analysis, I chose to write about texting and driving. I felt connected with this topic and my paper showed this in many ways. It was a little opinionated but it made the paper so much better than just facts. The information and tips that you gave us in class and out truly helped me write this paper.

The next project that was assigned was students had to create a blog and do at least 5 entries about a controversial topic. I decided to do bullying in schools around the nation against gay teens.  This project was the one where I feel like my writing went to another level in ways of opening up about what I really felt. It hit home because a young boy who went to my high school decided to commit suicide because of cyber bullying. No one deserves to be treated like that and I felt like I got my point across about how much of an issue it really is.

The third and last project I choose to do an argument-based analysis about how more sec education in schools would potentially decrease the number of teenage girls getting pregnant at such a young age.  I felt like this wasn’t my best writing compared to the first project.  It was a well written paper but I feel like I could have done more with the topic.  This paper was when I used a lot of the writing tips you taught us about and some we read about in They Say, I Say.

Your teaching really made me realize how to become a better writing, both personally and scholarly.  I strive to be the best writer I can and most of that comes from your teaching.

Thank you so much for the preparation you have given me about writing all different types of papers.

Sincerely 

Alison Shipkowski