The document is a reflective letter from a student to their instructor, expressing gratitude for the support received during a writing course. The student discusses their growth as a writer, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and emphasizes the importance of feedback, group work, and self-taught skills in their development. They highlight the significant improvement in their ability to express ideas and the enjoyment they found in the writing process throughout the semester.

1. Letter to Instructor
Institution Affiliation
Student Name
Professor
Course
Date
Dear Prof ……………
I want to commence by expressing my sincere appreciation
to my instructor who has been nothing but supportive all the
way. The assistance came both directly and indirectly, it was
the mandate of the student to distinguish between the two
without feeling left out. In terms of writing, the knowledge and
skills you have impacted us with is more than enough. I can
assure you from a student standpoint that the class did meet its
objective. The class enabled me to be cognizant of my strengths
and weaknesses as a writer. It is my belief that at this point, my
writing gives a sense of an adept writer who is able to elucidate

2. ideas effectively, thanks to you. Writing expanded my parochial
outlook of life as I started paying attention to little details that
most people overlook.
To become a quintessential writer takes time and I had all
the patience the world could provide. I identified my weak
points and worked my way up with every tool the content
provided in perfecting my flaws. As a writer I have kept on
evolving to become who I am today. There is a huge variation
between when I first registered for this course and my current
level as a writer. I used to make grammar errors and my
punctuation was poor. With the internet being fingertips away, I
self-taught myself the different and main types of essay formats
used in argumentative, persuasive and research papers. The
internet being unfiltered, information is not given in a
consistent manner and you end up an incomplete writer. But
thanks to the course, I had to begin from scratch and making
adjustments where I perceived there were loopholes.
Some of the projects in the course were allocated to
groups. This also played a key-role in my growth as a writer. It
is really amazing to grasp other’s perspective of situations as
you also air your opinion in contribution. Group projects
provide a give-and-take platform where opinions that are highly
acknowledged are considered while the less regarded offers one
an opportunity to work on them. It is through such group
projects, that I became more challenged to improve. My code in
life has always been to take each day at a time. You cannot
change how time operates. I did develop as a writer and I am
still learning each day to become the best there is. I took your
criticism positively and it has made a lot of difference in the
long run. When I began, I would write for the sake of getting
good remarks and that was the end of the story. Such an attitude
is good for a student but its benefits are short-lived if you want
to operate beyond the walls of a student. That is when I
discovered on the need of passion to be an effective writer in
terms of communicating and presenting ideas.
As an experienced writer, I can attest that there is an art

3. and science in writing viral content that is relevant to its
purpose and at the same time thought-provoking. The course did
enable me to crack the code to this secret. Trying to
comprehend your target audience is the first thing one ought to
do before determining which tactic to take in terms language
and writing structure. I always encountered difficulties in
presenting my ideas in a proficient manner but after taking the
course, I am more than able to express myself in as per
requisite.
My best paper in the course has been persuasive essays. It
enables a writer to sharpen writing skills and critically consider
on the perspective to take in order to sound intriguing and
convincing enough to keep the reader asking for more. Writing
has now become my way of escaping reality as it has
transformed me to a writing aficionado.
In summary, the class has played a tremendous role in
bringing out the writer personality in each and everyone of us.
Saying that I never enjoyed the process, would be an
understatement. Thank you for the huge role you played
nurturing us.
Sincerely,
………………… (Your
Name)
Unit 15: Lecture Notes
This letter should provide a sense of closure on the semester
and a forum for you to think about the
course and your writing in the future.
As noted in the assignment portion, you have many options in
terms of the focus of this letter. You may
discuss any of the options listed (under “Assignment”), or a

4. combination of several of those options, in
your 2-3 page letter.
The following is a student example of the Letter to the
Instructor:
Dear Prof. Land:
Over the course of the semester, we have studied a
variety of styles of writing, from the
perspective paper to the
research paper, from the personal narrative to summary/strong
response. Now is the culmination point
of all our hard work
over the last seven weeks. I believe my perspective paper, my
research paper, and my personal
narrative were my three best
works of the semester. I hope that have given you a sense of
who I am as a writer and a person,
because if there is no life, no
soul to my writing, then it is nothing but a bunch of words
splashed on paper.
The first paper I will discuss is my perspective paper.
Our assignment was to find a place on
campus and just take

5. twenty to thirty minutes to record observations about our place.
I’m very happy with the way this piece
turned out. I tried to
use many action verbs, like in the phrases: “the graceful animal
leaps high into the air” and “the brown,
parched grasses
helplessly reaches skyward.” I wanted action verbs in my
descriptions so that readers could actually
hear the birds chirping
and feel the heat of this sun beating down on their necks. I also
wanted to incorporate all the tools of the
Writer’s Toolbox,
especially figurative language. I used similes to make
comparisons between what I was seeing and
other, finer aspects of life.
For instance, “Insects create beautiful music with their buzzes
and chirps; it is like that are playing in an
orchestra.”
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6. The second part of the perspective paper was the
rhetorical analysis. I found this part to be fairly
easy because I
understand my writing and am able to explain what I am doing.
Basically, we were supposed to talk
about the specific
elements of the five rhetorical tools that we used in our
descriptions. I have had a lot of practice in this
form of writing, in the
English classes I took during high school, so I think this turned
out very well. The two descriptions of my
place incorporate
some of the exact same details, but give them in a completely
different light and create the opposite
impressions, as outlined in
the assignment. I also think my rhetorical analysis is very
concise in explaining the techniques I used in
my writing and how I
was able to create the intended feelings in the reader.
The next paper I am proud of is my research paper. Of

7. all the assignments this semester, the
Explaining a Concept
Research Paper was the most inherently difficult to complete. I
started off with the topic of Pez candy,
but I had to scrap that
topic almost immediately because of an utter lack of
information regarding the topic. Next, I tried golf
balls, but again, there
was no information to be discovered. Thank goodness I heard a
couple of guys at the video store talking
about the party they
were going to over the weekend, or I never would have decided
on a topic. The thought of partying
college students prompted
me to settle on the topic of binge drinking. As can be imagined,
there was a plethora of information on
this topic, so much so
that I had to narrow the focus of my paper and be very selective
in choosing my sources.
Upon narrowing my focus to binge drinking on college
campuses, I found information regarding
several studies done at

8. college campuses around the country, and a specific study done
at Northern Illinois University. These
sources gave me the
usual percentages of student who binge drink and the effects of
binge drinking on the college as a
whole. But the interesting
fact I found was that the actual percentages of binge drinking
students are much less than perceived.
The study done at
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Northern Illinois distinctively determined the cause of this
discrepancy comes from the idea that
“everyone is doing it” and
students get pressured into drinking from this outlook by
“imaginary peers.” Overall, I think I did a nice
job of combining all
the information I gathered into one united piece of writing.

9. The last essay I’d like to discuss is my personal
narrative, detailing a significant time in my life. I
chose basketball
tryouts my eighth grade year because that’s when I discovered
my true love of the game. Of all my work
this semester, this
piece is my favorite. It’s my favorite because the specifications
of the assignment were pretty general.
As long as the topic
somehow influence our lives, then it was acceptable. The rest
of the paper was completely up to us as
writers, and I seized the
opportunity to allow my personality and unique writing style
show through. I used dialogue between
characters a lot to help
move the story along, I give just enough background
information to set up the scenario, and I reflect on
the situation without
giving the corny “From this experience, I learned . . . “ that
we’ve all seen a million times. Overall, I really
liked out this piece
turned out.

10. To sum it up, this has really been a great class to take my
first semester back in school. It got me
back into the flow of
writing after being idle for several years, and now I feel ready
to tackle bigger and better things. I also
learned a lot about
myself as a writer, improved my transitions, and learned how to
really “show” a reader in my writing
instead of just “telling”
them. I truly enjoyed this class and feel it was a great benefit
to me. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Jason Smith
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Unit 15: Assignment -- Final Letter to the

11. Instructor
Write a 2-3 page letter to the instructor, which includes your
own analysis of your work in this
class.
You may discuss any of the following in this letter:
* Your strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and how these may
have changed or your awareness of
these may have been altered.
* The essay that you are most pleased with
* The essay that you are least pleased with
* The difficulty level of the various essays you completed for
this class
* The format of this class
* The quality of lecture notes, instructor feedback on papers,
and other materials
* The helpfulness of the textbook
Though this letter is to be addressed to the instructor, the real
point of this paper is for you to reflect on
this semester--how the course did (or did not) help you grow as
a writer--and prepare yourself for other
writing assignments you may have in the future.
Please be sure to review the Submit Your Assignment of Unit

12. #15 section for specific instructions
on how you should turn in your work for grading. The Final
Letter to the Instructor is due at the
end of Unit #15.
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