Cover Letter Directions:  Argument 3

Take about 15 minutes for your cover letter and respond to each of the following: 

  1. Tell me about your work with sources for this assignment.  Focus on two areas:

    1. Tell me how you went about finding useful sources. What problems did you encounter when trying to find useful sources? Be as specific as you can given the time constraints for this cover letter.
    2. Tell me about how you used your sources in your final draft.  What problems did you encounter in this area?  Were you comfortable trying to paraphrase and summarize as well as quote? Which of your sources do you think adds the most to your final draft?  Why? 

  2. Describe the changes you made in moving from the rough draft to the final draft of your argument. Include changes in any or all of the following:

    1. content: specifically, tell me about what you cut and what you added in moving from the rough to the final draft.  Be as specific as you can given the time constraints for this cover letter.
    2. organization
    3. presentation (documentation format, sentence-level adjustments, editing and proofreading concerns)

  3. Let me know about any specific problems you had (or are having) with MLA or APA format. Again, be specific. If you had no problems in this area worth noting, then type NONE.

  4. Tell me anything you think I should know regarding what's in (or not in) your folder. 
    If there is nothing you think I need to know, then just type OK.