Cover Letter

Vurne Bobbs

Cover Letter

English 1100-068

11 December 2010

In English 1100, I have learned many techniques to improve the way that I write. I have learned to use to support of Pathos, Ethos, and Logos in order to present better support, examples, and evidence in my papers. Writing research papers use to be something that I use to struggle with in English. I feel that I write very well when I am writing about something that I have experienced or either making up a fictional story because the information can be anything that my brain can think of. In this class, the main focus was making sure that in a paper, the Ethos is credible, the logos is logical, and the pathos is objective so that we can point out both sides of the issue. I did not realize how important it is to have sources in any paper that you write. If you choose the right sources and support, then you can make your paper sound more believable and much more credible because anyone could easily research the same information you did and compare it to the support that you have written down. I knew that I was going to learn something new when I first entered this class but I was not sure how much of the information was going to be important or just repetitive nonsense that I always use to hear in my English classes in high school. I remember the professor telling us to drop the five paragraph essay method and the five sentences per paragraph method. It was something that was placed in front of us in order to guide us through our essays. We were told that a paragraph does not just contain five well put together sentences. A paragraph contains every piece of material that you can think of until it feels complete. The professor told us to squeeze the juice of that paragraph until there is nothing left which means that you can put as many details or examples until you run out of material. Then toward the end, you must allow the last few sentences flow into the next paragraph as well. The entire must feel as though it is part of one big whole. This class has showed me a lot about writing and has made me aware of what the reader thinks when I write. I must remember that every sentence that I write down must contribute to the overall purpose of the paper in the first place.