Cover letter
Dear Sir or Madam:
My name is Eileen Chen. I am a 20-year old girl with a bit introverted character. Originally from Canton, the southern part of China, I am now a sophomore in Fudan University in Shanghai where I have been living and studying since I graduated from my high school in 2005. Owing to my interest in international affairs, I choose politics as my major specializing in international level.
At the outset, please allow me to express my heartful thanks and deepest gratitude to you for kindly sparing time on reading my selective works. To my great relief, the past several months witnessed my step-by-step progress in writing, maybe weeny but undoubtly vital to me. All these precious achivements should largely owe to my respectful tutor Ron and my adorable fellow classmates whose unremitting support and encouragement keep pushing me to march on and on. The four articles listed below, from bad to good, stand for the different stages I was in during my whole learning process this semester. Each of them, even the one you do not appreciate at all, contains so much efforts that I will look on it as my newborn baby. So if possible, I would sincerely recommend you to browse each item to have a complete understanding on my writing experience and what’ more, comments are always welcome here! Now it’s high time that I made a short introdution on my writing works selected below. Join me and let’s check it out!
The whole protfolio begins with my final timed-writing. Actually for me, this is the most challenging section in this writing course. Distinguished from other forms, timed-writing, as its name indicates, is a writing test with limited time. That means, you have to finish all the writing process in a relatively short period including doing comprehension, making conception and finishing composition. So the main obstacle for me is lack of enough time to get all these done marvelously. The one I posted here is the final one,however honestly speaking,not the most satisfactory one to me. What makes things worse is that it uncovered most of the weak points in my writing, like vague expression, Chinese-based thoughts or silly mistakes in grammer. So I would like to consider this work as a drive for me to make improvement in the coming study.
What comes next is a collection of my thesis which contains three drafts. Through comparison, I am sure,you can strongly sense the magical power of proofreading just as what I did before. Frankly speaking, making modification is such a painstaking and boring business that you can not persist easily. However, “No pains, no gains.” My personal experience makes me believe that if you can bear such indispensable hardship, a huge success must be awaiting for you. From draft one to draft two, I concentrated on the basic errors mainly appeared in vacabulary and grammer in case my idea can not be accurately conveyed. Then comes the second section from draft two to draft three, which I think, needs more edurance than the first one. Why? Because this time you have to pore more deeply into the article to examine the structure, strengthen the focal point and evaluate the evidence and so on. All in all, it is more than an easy task that you can imagine. During the whole procedure, I failed, I got frustrated, I even lost my confidence…But luckily, it pays to do so.Not only in vacabulary but also in expression, I found myself is making a noticable improvement and it is beyond doubt that I will keep working on it in the coming future!
The final essay is, in fact ,the first assignment I finished in this course. I selected this one from all the reading logs I wrote this sememster because, to a large extent, it means a lot to me. Despite the fact that this paper doesn’t have gorgous words or may be weak in thesis statement…Even it may be naive to some readers ,however, I would rather use it to represent my attitude in writing, which contains aspiring and enduring.
As to English-learning, I used to think that it is but a useful tool to earn marks instead of a tool for communication.However, things changed after I took Ron’s course for several weeks.Ron is such a nice person that we can not help having a liking for him. He is the one with charming character and cute smile. When feeling disapointed,he may talk in a deep voice; When feeling joyful, he will make a laugh of joy. He will share his snacks with us and try hard to memorize all our names.How sweet he is! Actually to me, sometimes I would rather consider him as a friend to me more than a severe teacher. It is he who leads me to find the fun in learning and reverses my erroneous view on English. Score is not the only thing we should pursuit and remember to study for youself! Your hardworking will be rewarded by God one day!
Once again, thanks for your time and patience in listenning to me here. Thanks Ron who gives me so much guidence! Thanks my peer who helped me a lot during workshop! This course is really like an fantastic journy to me and I did enjoy every moment here in this big family! Cheer up and keep going! We should be confident of the forthcoming vitory!
Sincerely yours,
Eileen Chen
