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To Whom It May Concern: First I would like to thank you for taking time to read my selected works for my portfolio. And I have chosen five essays in my portfolio. The whole semester of English composition will be finished in two weeks. I would like to look back into my course and share my experience of writing over the last several months. While starting the course, as I made it a rule to thinking in the past, writing in English is an impossible and unfinished affair for me. I always make a lot of phrasing mistakes because it is unfamiliar to me. However, as study continues, I came to know a lot about writing, such as how to make a thesis statement, how to organize an essay, how to select and integrate a quotation, etc. The knowledge that I have learned from the class makes my writing more flowing and formal. Although I have not absolutely controlled profound mystery of writing, I am more confident of it. The first paper in my portfolio deals with the story “The Grass-Eaters” written by Krishna Varma. In the reading log, I give expression to my feeling of the pathetic couple’s unimaginable life. The reason why I chose it is that the story especially the couple’s miserable destiny is strongly impressed on my memory. The reading log is something including my understanding of the story and the world. On the other hand, writing a reading log seems to be much easier than writing an essay. I do not need to consider a lot about the structure or integrality of the paper. My second paper is final timed-writing. Timed-writing is much more difficult for me than reading log. It is because that my writing speed is slow and I would make many phrasing mistakes. Organizing the sentences and expressing my meanings exactly in limitative time are not easy to me. As a result, my paper would be short and appear some low class mistakes. But it is also a challenge and training, which improves my ability. The last papers are three drafts about the story “The Necklace”. In draft one, my paper seems to be disorderly and most of the paragraphs are not related to my thesis. Another problem is that there are too many quotations. Through teacher’s instruction, I reworked the paper in order to make the readers understand my analysis and thesis through related evidence and explanation. And I tried to express the quotations with own words. After finishing draft three, my improvement could be seen. There is no doubt that this kind of continuous of modification helps me a lot and I enjoy taking this course. Lastly, thank you for taking time to read my papers. I hope that you can enjoy reading the papers and comment on them. Sincerely, Student FangYi
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