Cover Letter

August 14th 2002.
Portfolio Committee
Writing Department of
Highline Community College.
Des-Moines, WA 98198.

To Whom It May Concern:

Here is what I have done for the last seven weeks in this course. Attached to this are two of my revised essays attached in this portfolio which I think is the best out of the four essays I have written in this course. Angi Caster gave us her grading criteria at the beginning of this course and I have tried my best to make sure that the requirements are met in all my essays.

The grading criteria for any paper in this course include the following-focus, coherence, linguistic maturity, evidence, complexity, and creative risk-. Although I am no expert in everything, having those that I am good at and hope you will agree with me when you read my essays titled “The Betrayers” and the gender essay titled “Do Not Get Pregnant” which is in this portfolio. Nevertheless, I have improved on my weaknesses as this course proceeds.

In my essays, focus, creative risk and complexity happen to be very strong in my essay. I know this because I used a good and strong argument/opinion of others’ point of view and how it affected my country Nigeria as a whole. I also used my first language in these essays, so according to what Angi said, my creative risk is okay however, I am only average in this category. I do take risk but not a lot of risk.

The two essays in this portfolio have evidence in them. Evidence and linguistic maturity are my strengths. When I talked about how people are been discriminated in Nigeria because of their skin color, giving example of my own experience which gave me good evidence of what I am talking about. The gender essay is also full of evidence that the females in a society are treated differently. The evidence was when I explained how female circumcision is done in my mother’s village. I did not realize that my linguistic maturity was good until I read the comment Angi made on my paper. However, it was bad the first week but then, I improved on it and now it is one of my strength.

I will say that my weakness is probably coherence. As a person that speaks other languages besides English, I know that I have a little problem with coherence. However, I have been working very hard on this part of my weakness and have seen improvement in this category before my final essay.

Knowing that my papers are not the best essay you will read in my class; however, I hope you find it a little bit interesting and see the message I am trying to bring and be interested in my writing after reading these essays. Above all, I wish and hope you find it fun and entertaining while you read instead of getting bored.

Yours faithfully,
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