Cover Letter

To My Mentor,

            First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the time and effort that you have provided to teach me and my fellow block mates lessons that we will surely treasure. Thank you for inspiring us to become better writers and for helping us improve our writing skills. I hope that God will continue to bless you and guide you in teaching aspiring writers like me.

The essays that I have written for this e-portfolio is evidence itself to prove that I have achieved the desired learning results of Englcom. Through the essays that I have written, I can show all the skills that I have learned in Englcom and I can also present how I have achieved my goals and objectives in the said writing course. The way that I was able to use various writing skills such as the use of rhetorical moves, transitional devices, formulating a good thesis statement, and a lot more shows that I was able to achieve what Englcom has intended for me to achieve. In addition to this, I was also able to construct my essays well through the proper organization of my ideas and by being able to create good hooks for my introduction such as the use of quotations and questions.

            I found it quite difficult to be a creative thinker because I run out of ideas to make my essays more interesting at times. I found it hard to be creative especially during times when I’m under stress or pressure. It was also a bit risky to be too creative because there is a possibility that my essays would be misunderstood or disliked by those who will read it.

            What I plan to do to achieve being a creative thinker is to read more articles or sources so that I will be able to receive more ideas and so that I will be inspired to write more creatively. I will also try to think more outside the box and to step out of my comfort zone so that I can try new things and experiment on other writing skills that I have not used before.

            The piece of evidence that I am most proud of is being able to apply the writing skills that I have learned in the essays that I have written for this e-portfolio. I was able to utilize writing skills such as rhetorical moves, good hooks for my essays’ introduction, transitional devices, thesis statements, topic sentences, and the like. I am most proud of this piece of evidence because I believe that being able to apply the writing skills that I have learned in Englcom is very useful and important for it shows how much I have improved as a writer. Before, I was not so aware that the use of writing skills would make my essays or outputs better but I have realized the importance of writing skills which makes the use of writing skills the evidence that I most proud of.

            One of the learning activities that I find useful in achieving my personal goals for Englcom is the online writing of drafts because I was able to practice and improve my writing skills and at the same time express my views and opinions through the essays or drafts that I wrote. Another learning activity that I find useful in achieving my personal goals for Englcom is the online writing of comments on peers’ blogs because through this activity, I was able to learn from the way that other people write and I was able to get more ideas about how I should write my own essays. By commenting on peers’ blogs, I was also able to make use of the lessons that I learned about writing through being aware of the errors that other people have made and from their errors, I was also able to correct those that I have committed myself in my writings.

            I do think that blogging helps in the development of my reading and writing skills because through blogging, I am able to practice the skills that I have learned about reading and writing. By reading texts from other different sources to get ideas and to use some of it as references for the essays that I write, I am able to utilize and develop my reading skills like noting details, skimming or scanning, getting the main idea, and so on. Furthermore, by writing this cover letter itself, I was able to develop my reading skills because I was provided a chance to read the essays that I have written for this e-portfolio in order to determine whether or not I have achieved my goals for Englcom. As I have also mentioned earlier, through blogging, I was able to develop and apply my writing skills through the essays that I wrote.

            What I learned about myself as a writer as I was taking this writing course is that I still need to improve on my writing skills and that I need to spend more time on writing so that I can become a better writer. I also learned that there is a writer inside everyone; we just need a chance to develop and show it. I also learned that I can be a good writer if I listen to the lessons and tips that my professor teaches us and if I apply the writing skills that I have learned in class in everything that I write.

            As I was taking this course, I learned that in writing, you need patience and a passion for writing. I learned that we need to put our heart and soul in everything that we write for it to be a lot more worth reading. We do not need to be a professional writer in order to write, we simply need a peaceful mind, a heart full of passion, a paper, and a pen. The writing process is not that difficult and though it might take some time to complete the entire process; however, our time and effort will all be worth it in the end. We just need to go through the steps of the writing process carefully to properly complete it.

            I can justify the revisions that I have made on my major essays by correcting all the errors that I have made, especially when it comes to grammar, punctuation, and the construction of my sentences. I also cited additional sources and properly constructed my reference list. I can justify my revised major essays by adding more support or justifications to some of the statements that I have made in my revised major essays as well.