Final Cover Letter 1

To be quite honest I did not believe, at first, that this would be how University research projects would be put together and organized. Throughout my schooling, I had always been taught to organize papers through graphs and bubble-brainstorm charts in which you think of your main ideas you will use for your essay and then draw lines from those and put down other details and information. I had realized that this, of course, gives you a very limited amount of room to create true, original essay formats, but I figured this was simply a cookie-cutter essay creator that all American schools and colleges forced their students to abide by – I.E. 5 paragraph essays for FCAT. I never liked it much, I hate to use this format as I believe that writing must always be original and can and should, for the most part, be flexible in how they are constructed so long as they maintain the fundamentals such as thesis statements and a well though-out, interesting introduction paragraphs. I was glad to find out through this class that later, more difficult writing classes will urge the students to use other methods to create their work, such as through this online-based research blog to construct and jot down one’s progress.

There is a major possibility that later on in my college career I would adopt this method, if not alter it just slightly, for some of the work I will do – however I must confess that this type of research and organization appears to me as a method for those much harder, complicated, and longer essays that require much more thought and information than most basic essays – it would be a waste of time to use this method for mere 5-page essays (generally double spaced in this case). It has its merits though, for all of your work and thought is put down day by day as your research goes on, it would be difficult to forget, and an easy reminder, should you have to come back to it after a few days, to get right back on track when necessary.