Final Portfolio

Cover letter for portfolio:
In my portfolio I have included pieces of my writings that I have done through the course of English 151 that I think show how my writing has progressed. First is my major rewrite of our first paper. I made changes to this paper to make it better and meet the requirements. It began as not the best piece of writing. After taking this course I have a better understanding of why it was not good and how to make it better, which I tried to show. Second is the fourth paper that was required for the portfolio, but that from starting out in this class, the fourth paper shows how my writing has also progressed. Lastly I included the second paper from this course. I think that this paper shows the most how my writing has improved with the help of this course. I think that my grade should be raised to the fact that my work in this class started out rough. Due to this class I now have a much better understanding of how to write college papers. I think that in the papers I provided, they show the improvement that my writing has come to. This class was a great class that taught me a lot about writing and how to write proper papers.

Cover letter for paper 1:
In this paper I was trying to explain how the importance of grammar has changed. My main point was that sometimes it is important and sometimes it is not as important. I supported my claims by the article from Dawkins. I think that the argument about texting and how it changes how people write for academic purposes or for their jobs is working well in my paper. I think that maybe the generation part was not working so well. I want the readers to understand that writing has changed over the years and somethings are not as important as they used to be. 

Link to paper 1: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9ku8u6rjihJOXZjRE92VktSNjJWX2t1OFQ4SWM1QQ

Cover letter for paper 4:
In this paper I was trying to explain how the importance of grammar has changed. My main point was that sometimes it is important and sometimes it is not as important. I think that the argument about texting and how it changes how people write for academic purposes or for their jobs is working well in my paper. I think that maybe the generation part was not working so well. I want the readers to understand that writing has changed over the years and somethings are not as important as they used to be. 

Link to paper 4: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9ku8u6rjihJUUJqc3pSU2VScFdYbjRhRnNTMHVXQQ

Cover letter for paper 2:
With this paper I tried to show the process of how I write. My main claim was that I consider myself a one draft writer and that I don't consider myself a good writer. To support my claim I wrote through the process that I go through when I write papers or articles. I think the good things about my paper were the details that I showed how I go about writing a paper. The parts of my paper that I am not too sure about are the intro and the conclusion because I wasn't positive how to go about them. 

Link to paper 2:https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9ku8u6rjihJdkt2Sm5PTGJSZS10Y2tyYXEtd0pkUQ