Joshua+Welk+Cover+Letter

= Cover Letter =

Joshua L. Welk English 103 10 am Professor Hartman 12/9/10  Cover Letter Dear Dr. Hartman,

I must say that I came into this class thinking I was a decent writer, not the greatest, but decent enough to get my point across in my writing. I knew I had some problems that I needed to fix in my writing, but I was sure that this class could help me fix those problems. I'm sure you would say otherwise at times, but I think I've fixed a few of my problems, except my ranting, which still tends to be a problem, maybe that's just because of the way I write. I actually have had to write less for this class, and all my classes in general, then my high school senior classes, but I'm pretty sure that will change soon. Anyways, I think the writing I've done, in this class especially, has helped my writing a good deal. The first writing in my portfolio is my Research Paper written for this class. I think this piece of writing best shows that one of the biggest problems with my writing is ranting. Other then the ranting, I don't think it's a bad paper, I mean, it obviously could be better, and have less ranting in it, but that's just how things are I guess. I kind of enjoyed writing this piece, but over all, I don't think it was my favorite piece to write. The second writing within this portfolio is a writing assignment for my History 150 class. This one I think is a little less rant-filled, but it also is a little short and isn't exactly a grand piece of writing on it's own. I didn't do too bad on it, I got a 45 out of 50, mainly because it was rather brief and I needed just a little more detail. The third piece of writing that I've placed in this portfolio is the Multi-Genre Paper of this class as well. This was one of my favorite pieces over all. I've always enjoyed doing multi-genre papers, so I thought I had this one pretty well. Of course, this one definitely use some work, but I feel that over-all, it's got some good samples of writing. I thoroughly enjoyed writing this paper, like I said, I enjoy doing multi-genre papers. The final writing piece that I've put in my portfolio is the Persuasive Speech I had to write for my COMM 210 class. Besides this Cover letter, I think that this speech was the last piece of writing I've had to do so far this semester. I didn't exactly enjoy writing this piece, but I do think it turned out okay, especially since it was sort of last minute writing. I didn't really go and have my peers review my papers, I just wrote them and turned them in most of the time. I guess it would have been a good idea to have someone peer review it, but I just never took the time to. I never really did take the teacher's comments to use either it seemed. I meant to, but I guess I never thought about it... oh well, maybe I'll learn someday... I know that my writing hasn't changed much since the beginning of the year, but I think I've made a few good changes in my writing, but I do think I still rant just a bit much in my writings. Maybe someday I'll be a grand writer of some sorts. I want to become a professional writer, but I feel that my work ethic would make it near impossible at times, but I'll still try!

Thanks For Reading, Joshua L. Welk