Sample Cover Letter

My essay is looking at the conversation of coordinating conjunctions. Many students are taught growing up that coordinating conjunctions are not suppose to be used at the beginning of a sentence. Later in their schooling students then learn that in fact coordinating conjunctions can be used at the beginning of a sentence. The purpose of my paper is to argue that students should be taught at a younger age the rules of coordinating conjunctions. My paper also reflects the teaching methods used to teach coordinating conjunctions and how they can be improved.

I thought this paper would be effective because the coordinating conjunction rule is one that I had learned growing up and I thought would be interesting to explore. I organized my paper into different sub categories. A situation a lot of students can relate to, the rules students are taught, breaking the rules students are taught, the teaching methods, and how they could be improved.  I think the teaching part is the strongest part of the paper.  I think the breaking the rules is the weakest. I would like my peers to comment honestly; about the organization, things that don’t make since, and things they thought were most effective. I would also like suggestions about editing mistakes.

While writing this paper I’ve learned a lot about my own writing process. Since this was the first paper that I’ve written without strict five paragraph essay guidelines I struggled at first to get ideas, I rearranged ideas, quotes, and whole paragraphs at times during the revising stage. When I was in the middle of writing I found a direction I wanted to continue with so I had to go research some more. The whole process was a lot freer roaming than high school papers. Before I would research write and then edit, with this paper it’s taken a lot more going back, rethinking, rewriting, and researching.  I have a better respect for writing after this paper.