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Cover Letter
Writing is definitely one of my strong suits, as opposed to math or science (which is
weird because I am a pre-veterinary medicine major), however, I have embraced my ability to
scribble words on paper and know I can use it to my advantage. In high school, I was never
really intrigued by the topics they offered us to write because they were so stereotypical and the
teacher always had one way that she wanted everything written. I understand that is how they are
supposed to teach kids, but I found it dull and uninteresting. In class writings for my AP classes
were the absolute worst, I was always under a time crunch and these topics were all textbook
based while also having a content quota. Overall, my high school writing averaged B to B+
grades, because my interest just was not there. My first semester as a college freshman gave me
classes such as Animal Science and Food Science that provided me with the information that I
needed to compose essays in composition II my second semester. My composition class is the
only one so far in my college career that has given me in depth essays to write about besides one
relationship analysis paper I was given in my speech communications class. During my college
career, my writing did a complete 360 degree turn. Finally, I was offered topics that sparked my
interest and actually mattered to the rest of society. Instead of explaining the major themes and
examples from Jane Eyre in a well thought out essay, I was offered topics such as what do I
believe are serious issues in society today, how are we going to sustain the world food
production by 2050, and what to criticize about myself and my relationships with those closest to
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The topic of relationship analysis paper titled, The Best I Will Ever Have, came from my
speech communications class and I was asked to use information from our book to accurately
analyze my relationship with someone close to me. I liked this paper because it made me look at
myself from all angles of my relationship with my boyfriend Will and where I am weak with
regards to how I treat him and other close to me. I did not particularly enjoy having to use all the
criteria from my textbook and having to be more structured, but I did appreciate the criteria that
helped structure my essay.
Addressing the four topics that are covered in my portfolio, The Best I Will Ever Have
being last, my initial topic discusses how technology influences our lives and stemmed from both
my high school senior paper and my first composition II essay in college. I chose to incorporate
my high school senior paper into my portfolio instead of my This I Believe topic because it
addressed the same problem but went more in depth while offering a plethora of sources to back
up the information. In my composition class, Watkins gave us four topics for four different
essays we were asked to write on. Our first one being about a social issue we believed in while
the second addressed what our opinions were on the topic of sustainable food production.
My second we essay we wrote was titled The Tools That Create Your Plate, and for the
first time in my schooling career I got the chance to use all the information I had learned from
my classes previously and incorporate it into a well-composed research paper. I used lectures
from Dr. Jason Lusk lectures from Food Science, and TED talks that we used in Animal Science
to write short paragraphs about sustainability and animal practices. I really loved this essay
because it was a topic related to my major and let me use information that I learned because I
was passionate about it. While I was not given the chance in these classes to write essays

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regarding these topics, I was excited to elaborate on them in a class that would critique my
grammar and transitions to where my words made sense.
Moving on to our final topic that we were asked to write about in my composition class,
we were given information regarding Global Citizenship and topics that encompassed global
issues. This proved to be a little difficult for me to pick a topic, I changed what I was writing
about probably 3 times. I tried to gather information about the oil economy, which proved to be
too broad of a topic and would have been too much information to write about so I changed it to
something still broad but encompassed Global Citizenship as a whole, education. I used
information from our previous topic, which was about a higher education and whether or not
going to college was worth it (our topic for our midterm which I thoroughly enjoyed learning and
writing about). I incorporated the overall importance of an education and how it effects our
world population economically, socially, and personally.
As a writer, I have had the most enjoyable time and experience in my college
composition II class. The most pleasing thing that I love to hear as a writer is that people actually
learn something from what I have to say in my compositions. For example, my The Tools That
Create Your Plate paper gave a few people that have read it a new educational view of food
production that would have not known any better if not for my paper. I think that the fact that I
hold my education so highly is prevalent throughout all my papers whether it address how
technology affects us today, tomorrows food production issues, or the ongoing global issue of
education.