Questions/aspects to address in the cover letter

**The above essay must begin with a Cover Letter, select an audience (the instructor, a journal entry, future Engl 110 students, for example) to write to and consider the following:

1. offer a substantive response to your experience in Engl 110 Freshman Composition (this should include some kind of course “take away,”)

2. discuss your engagement with the rhetorical elements,

— 2a. special attention/explanation to CLO #9

3. how and if you writing process has changed,

4. (new as of fall 2021) what happens to the other rhetorical elements when you change one of the elements within the situation? for example, when you change media, do the other elements change?

5. (new as of fall 2021) was there a challenge in writing across genres and                          addressing specific audiences?

6. the fact that your first english class, and your first college experience on a whole, has been through remote learning online,

7. and the theme (the importance of voice in producing texts that contain topics that need to be addressed, and the single story), by which the class was conducted, and anything else you might want to offer in this section.

**This cover letter also works as you introduction to this project, so you will want to address this in your cover letter as well. Much the same way as you compose intro paragraphs with roadmap sentences that lead to your thesis statement and project content.

 

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**NOTE:

I always suggest to students when they are completing the project to consider the following:  

when looking at rhetorical elements (exigence, purpose, genre, audience, purpose, stance) 

consider where your understanding was of each element in the beginning of the semester, and then look at where your understanding is at present. and discuss how your understanding (or lack thereof) progressed (or digressed) 

when considering the rhetorical elements- ask yourself the following: 

– how has my understanding of each rhetorical element evolved throughout the semester? 

– what was it when I started? What is it now? How did I arrive at this conclusion?

**use the progression of the assignments to help answer this question

 

when looking at CLOs, look at all the measures we have done in class, coursework, homework, and projects, to achieve EACH CLO. 

for example, there is a CLO about writing as a social exercise- with every major assignment came a peer review process, that even though we actually never got to do it f2f in the classroom, it is an interactive, social process. you also left comments on bb and answered each other, which is also a social process. we did a couple of other things as well. 

when considering CLOs, examine each one and look at how you achieved it, with coursework (both online and in class) and homework. 

 

portfolio section- revisions of all major assignments (memo, tech description, lab report, engineering proposal/ppt). omit the audience analysis and reflection papers. documents and reference pages only!

—- sub section- abstract. each abstract works as a short section to introduce the major assignments and genres that students have composed in.  the abstract MUST include a definition of the assignment AND a reflection of your revision process.

 

**evidence is needed for all! (this is the self cite piece- lit narrative, blender assignment, and argumentative first, then all other aspects)