Cover Letter Addition And Revision: Writing SkillsCover Letter Addition And Revision: Writing Skills

Levi BundrantChelsea JohnsonCover letter 11 April 2019 Writing competence in college writing is important but one thing is clear, is that communication needs to be effective and the adequacy of communicative context requires clarity and precision. Good writing is associated with clear communication and text comprehension, and since reading the quality of writing I have taken into consideration feedback on my writing so that I do not repeat the same mistakes again. I recognized the need to improve my persuasive and rhetoric skills, and these skills are transferable beyond academics. For instance, in my writing on the musician Kanye West, I received feedback that I needed to be clearer on what makes the artists unique and appealing to the ethos, pathos and logos in the introduction to more persuasive. With time I have improved my writing skills as I use more persuasive and rhetorical strategies, while making claims with evidence to strengthen my arguments without forgetting about the overall message. Reading has helped me get more organized since writing more regularly allows me to improve on my skills and utilize feedback to correct past mistakes. Like any other skill, writing requires sustained practice, and unlike before I did focus on pre-writing and the various writing exercises have been beneficial to write more coherently. It is necessary to use formal language and avoid contractions, and I have in the past used many contractions, yet this is more common to personal communication away from formal settings and academics. Readers prefer accuracy and effective writing skills helps to persuade, flows logically, and improving my writing has enhanced my ability to work under pressure. I have improved my persuasive skills since my writing skills got better from when the semester started, had now communicate more effectively. Persuasion is an important skill in writing as I am now better placed to defend my ideas better than before, using facts, evidence and making logical augments. Prior to understanding writing exercises, I at times expressed opinions as fact and even failed to provide context to enhance persuasion. Nonetheless, I now know how flawed arguments and writing affect communication, and I believe that I can now send messages in writing clearly after improving my writing skills and persuade the readers without contradicting myself. Sometimes I rush in my writing waiting until the deadlines, was close and do not fully realize what I wrote and checked the text for clarity. I have realized that there is a need to be keen in all the writing phases and focus on only one idea in each paragraph. The paragraph unity and cohesion depends on the topic idea in a paragraph explored and how this is supported and linked to the main idea. one can only learn to write when there is writing, an my interest in reading did improve my writing in my young years and even now, but back then I did not realize the importance of being exposed to different writing materials. In learning and improving my writing skills, I have...