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7 May 2014

Dr. Leslie Bruce


Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
California State University, Fullerton
800 North State College Boulevard
Fullerton, CA 92831



Dear Dr. Bruce,

This letter's purpose is to persuade you that I have accomplished all the student learning
objectives (SLO) outlined in the syllabus. The portfolio will contain writing materials such as a
review paper, a section of the writer's notebook, and a peer review conference sheet. These three
writing samples will collectively contain all the pieces for the student learning outcomes and
demonstrate my accomplishment as well as my growth as a writer. I specifically ordered my
portfolio, in increasing order, to what I believe are my greatest achievements in the course.
My first document, the writer's notebook, fulfills SLO number one. My writer's notebook holds
my thoughts and ideas from questions that were asked about writing. I completed the writer's
notebook during class and utilized an informal writing technique which satisfies part of the first
SLO one. The review paper shows the accomplishment of the second part of SLO one. The
review paper's purpose was to demonstrate our ability to read primary literature sources and
efficiently present the information collected in a review format. I utilized a formal writing
method because my chosen journal had a formal writing requirement. The writer's notebook and
the review paper fulfills writing for a variety of scientific audiences and purposes which
complete SLO one.
SLO five can be completely satisfied with the revised review paper. One part of SLO five must
demonstrate sensitivity to gender and cultural differences and the review paper follows through
by using gender neutral pronouns. The revised review paper shows the language and design that
concisely express and influence meaning with the use of sentence structure skills learn
throughout the semester. These skills involved vigorous verbs and removal of prepositions that
structure the sentence in a concise manner and help with the meaning.
The conference sheet document completes SLO six because this helped with improving my own
and others' writing skills. The revised review paper shows my writing skill improvement from
the original submission as I fixed many problems by focusing on the use of vigorous verbs. I
understand that by using active verbs, the sentences becomes more direct and concise, therefore,
focused my efforts to change passive verbs into active verbs. I assessed my peer's writing
assignment for the second conference meeting by reading over and commenting his proposal.
While reading my peer's paper, I focused in on looking for sections that satisfy the SLO's and
sentence structure issues.
SLO two's main goal enables students to ethically and properly cite sources. For my original
review paper, I made a critical mistake in not citing figures and schemes. Citations for figures
and schemes are just as important as citing texts. The revised review paper in my portfolio
demonstrates my accomplishment of SLO two because I show properly cited texts, figures, and
schemes.
Learning how to properly organize a paper was a skill that I thought I knew how to manage, but I
only knew of IMRAD. For the review paper, I planned on using the IMRAD organizational
method, but instead I implemented a technique learned in class, topical organization, in order to
showcase my growth as a writer. I was able to organize the review paper in topical sections as
product formation (five or six membered heterocycles) and have subsections named observed
yields and oxime reactivity. Through this cover letter, I am persuasively writing to convince you
that I successfully learned all the SLO's, therefore, SLO four is satisfied.
The review paper shows my success of SLO three because I compared, contrasted, and
synthesized relative information obtained from reading primary literature sources. This specific
part contained in the review paper is my greatest accomplishment because I took raw information
from the primary articles and concisely explained my findings. This accomplishment shows my
growth as a writer this semester and also my potential writing ability.
This English writing course has helped me grow as a writer by learning new techniques such as
editing practices, organizational methods, and sentence development. I will continue to use what
I learn to grow into an even better scientific writer by working on my weakness and improving
my strengths. Thank you for reading this cover letter, and I hope you enjoy reading my portfolio.


Sincerely,


Michael Ko.

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