—Tony Zhao
—June 22, 2007
—Cover Letter
Thanks for reading Tony’s Writing Portfolio! In this portfolio, you will find one reading log, three essay drafts and a final-time writng, selected from Tony’s English writings.
The reason to choose these writings is because they reflect Tony’s improvement in his writing ability after taking Ron Corio’s Advanced English Writing Class. The three drafts reveal what I think after reading the story of “Dead Men’s Path”. As you continue reading from Draft One to Draft Three, you can notice the progress achieved in gammar, thesis statement, supporting evidence, as well as length of the essay. For instance, the thesis in Draft One is relatively vague, while in Draft Two it becomes strong of the same meaning, but its weakness lies in that the thesis can be clearly seen from the story. Finally in the last draft, the revised thesis is strongly stated and turns to be more impressive, because it carries some idea that is not obvious from the original story. The Final- timed writing is about a movie advertisement, or a “trailer” I design for the story of “The Grass-Eaters”, inside which I select a scene representing the theme of the story. The last item in Tony’s Writing Portfoio is a reading log for the famous French literature “The Necklace”, which shows my perspectives of the great changes happened to Mathilde. Hope you will find more as you read through my portfolio!
The order of the six items in Tony’s Writing Portfilio is set chronologically except for the Final-Timed Writing. The chronological order ,like that of the three essay drafts, is supposed to reflect the progressive improvement through the four months of writing. The Final-timed writing is arranged to appear after the three essay drafts because it is both shorter, and the idea of the improvement in writing ability would be seen more easily if the three essay drafts are posted right under this cover letter.
I am really grateful to Ron and his instructive Advanced English Writing Class for introducing the idea of free writing to me, as well as many other suggestions and guidances. Before I enter this class, I would spend a lot of time only thinking about what I am going to put down on my exam paper, how to arrange the focal points in the composition, etc, before eventually coming up with one word in the timed writing! More often than not, I would hand in an essay with an almost perfect beginning but a rough and uncomplete ending, which make the several different paragraphs inconsistent with each other both in length and language style. Now I suppose you will not find big sign of incoherence in Tony’s Final-timed Writing. The improvement attributes to the help of free writing, of which the benefit is not only limited to this class, but covers the timed writings of other exams as well.
Really appreciate your patience of reading my portfolio!
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