Javon

Cover Letter 1. Memoir: “Face Plant” a. This paper was one of the easier papers of the semester. For me not to be a strong writer, typing the paper was actually fun. “Face Plant” is about me chipping my front teeth on the concrete. I was in fifth grade trying to ride on the back of a car, and I slipped off and busted my mouth open. It was a reflection on my young eagerness to do what my older brother did. I feel it could have been a lot better, however, it was my first college paper and I didn’t know what to expect.
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2. Public Letter: “Dear Father” a. This was a public letter to my father from me about why my father feels marijuana should be illegal. This was a topic that I often criticized my father about, so I felt confident about writing it. It pointed out my father’s hypocrisy, and just basically calling him out on all his bullshit. However, I did not do as well as I thought I was, but all is well.

3. Academic Argument: “Prostitution” a. I loved writing this paper, hands down. I liked the fact that we started off in groups. It made it easier for me to come up with some of my sources. The written from an anti-prostitution perspective, a pro-prostitution view, and finally my opinions on the subject. It was definitely fun doing the research, just finding out little facts and details I never knew about prostitution.

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 ** Cover Letter ** To whom it may concern: Writing papers and essays were never my strong point. I dreaded reading articles and doing research. Writing papers is a part of college, so I had to pick up on that fast. When I first got to English class, we did free writing, something I had never really heard of. The free writing helped me because before, it took me a long time to choose a topic. Once I got the hang of the free writing, I chose topic faster, and the rough drafts were easier to do as well. In my high school, we never had to write big papers. When I got here I was not ready to begin writing these types of papers.  The memoir was the easiest and the most fun to write. It came from all personal experience so I did not have to do research at all. With the memoir, I told the story of a very important lesson I learned in fifth grade. I was riding on the back of a car and feel off and chipped my teeth. Just writing about that personal experience made me believe that this class was going to be pretty easy as long as I stayed focus and took time with my work. Although that was a good idea, once the other aspects of college life kicked in my papers began to seem more and more difficult.  Going into the public letter, I still felt pretty confident about my writing. My writing still wasn’t good, but I was trying. I did a lot of research on the topic because I liked the topic and I wanted to present a good paper about it. I received a lot of feedback on the draft of the letter. The feedback was both positive and negative, but it was good for me to develop my paper more. For one, I changed who I was addressing in the letter because I didn’t want to write to formally. However, I did this paper to the best of my ability and I feel I received a grade that I earned.  The last paper on the list I felt I did not do so well on. I feel like I got lazy with writing because we had already done two papers, plus I did a speech for my other class. I was burned out on writing. You could tell that I was into the topic, but I just couldn’t express that on paper as well as the other. I mean just with my topic, I never had the freedom to write about prostitution and other things like that. With the freedom to write whatever, I didn’t write this paper to the best of my abilities and I feel I received a grade that I earned. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> All in all, for myself to develop as I writer, I just need to become more serious about writing. I have to want to write, I have to want to type my papers, and I have to do the research. Once I realize that there is a process to writing, I feel I can become a more fluent writer. The biggest thing that hurts me with writing papers is procrastination. Once I stop procrastinating, I can take more time to fully develop my papers and how they are written. I just need to stay focused, and aim high when I write, point blank. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Sincerely, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Javon Bell