1. Cover Letter
The purpose of this document is to help your readers understand your thought process as a writer. They want to know how you approach the act of writing, and how you go about making decisions—aspects that are not easy to determine from other parts of the portfolio.
This document will be divided into three distinct sections—three sections, not necessarily three paragraphs. Use as many paragraphs as you need to cover the following in this prescribed sequence:
- In the first section, explain the two biggest concepts of the class, rhetoric (“it depends”) and academic discourse (“entering the conversation”). Discuss any assignments, conversations or moments from the class that helped deepen your understanding of these concepts.
- Next, think about a possible future career, and briefly describe it.
- In the final and most developed section, explore how rhetoric and academic discourse might be applied to your career. Don’t limit your discussion to writing; instead, feel free to explore other job-related situations related to communication, speaking, and persuasion. Please use examples and guide your reader through your thought-process in a detailed manner as you navigate the elements of the rhetorical situation (purpose, context, genre, audience). Highlight the choices and tradeoffs you would face as a communicator, and how you would act.
The committee expects the cover letter to be around 1,000 words long. They ask that you address the letter to the “Portfolio Reading Committee” and that you format this document as a business letter [See Footnote 1].
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