As you consider what to include in your cover letter, you don’t want to repeat everything you wrote in your journals. Your individual journals will be reviewed and the team doesn’t want to read the same thing twice. Instead, keep our course theme in mind, “seeing through someone else’s eyes.” Address the ways that this experience has afforded you the opportunity to better understand another and at the same time better understand yourself.
Cover Letter Directions
Use the questions below to develop an essay that reflects on your learning and experience. You need not answer each question but choose the topics where you can write the most effective letter. Topics get progressively challenging as you move toward the bottom of the list.
What has this first part of the semester taught you about reading and yourself as a reader?
What has this first part of the semester taught you about writing and yourself as a writer?
What would you want to keep and what would you want to change about yourself as a learner, reader, and writer after this experience?
What have you learned from reading the memoir itself? How has reading this book helped you to “see through someone else’s eyes”? Discuss a previous experience with an acquaintance, co-worker, friend, or family member and how you might approach the experience differently after reading this memoir and learning what you have learned from it.
What have you learned about rhetoric? How has examining the memoir through the lens of rhetoric helped you to better understand and make use or rhetorical ideas?
How has reading this memoir helped you better understand the current challenges the country faces with regards to racism, white supremacy, violence, and economic disparity?
Cover Letter Midterm Submission Requirements
Students seeking an A need 750 words; students seeking a B or C need 500 words.
The cover letter requires you to use a minimum of 2 sources, one of which must be your memoir. The other should be from a class reading.
Sources must be cited in MLA format.
