11 December 2015

Dr. Leslie Bruce

English Department.
ADDRESS (NOT INCLUDED FOR ONLINE)
Dear Dr. Bruce,
The technical writing class has been a unique experience for me. I was
expecting a writing intensive English class but was pleasantly surprised at the
lessons which emphasized the application of writing skills for real-life
communication. I have selected assignments throughout the semester which shows
my understanding of the student learning outcome (SLO) and they are displayed in
this order: this cover letter, progress report from the iFixit project, and a post from
the writers notebook.
Being the final writing project, the cover letter illustrates many points of the
SLOs. It illustrates the Rhetorical focus by writing formally to you, being a single
audience of professorship who is familiar with my work. Most importantly, this
letter will display the Persuasion objective of SLO. I am writing using a direct
language with examples from the assignments to support my argument. The cover
letter is also organized and uses good language and design, which can be seen by
the letter formatting.
The second assignment is the progress report from the iFixit Project. It was a
unique project to make a guide where I will only be present through the words and
pictures that is on the website, which had me put a lot of thought in each word for
the audience to grab. The progress report illustrates many points of the SLOs and I
was able to edit the document from your comments and my peers to better
exemplify the SLOs in writing. Rhetorical focus can be seen in the assignment as I
wrote in a formal tone to address variety of audiences, which the iFixit staff as well
as you, Dr. Bruce. From your suggestion, I included citation to the iFixit website that
I included a quote of direction to show Ethical Citation to give credit to appropriate
sources. The document was organized to clearly communicate the groups thoughts
by stating our argument by using appropriate and concise language with strong
verbs and design to include bullet points and white spaces to better organize and
ease the readers eye. The document shows the collaboration of the group as we
were in charge of different parts of the project but all the thoughts and progress in
different parts were combined in the document.
Lastly, I have included an entry from my writers notebook to illustrate writing
informally, to myself and you, the professor. The post does not have form but just
my thoughts on the question, yet I chose to use document design skills that I
learned in the class to better organize my thoughts, and have included my own
comments on the question at the end, which informally addresses the question
given using unprofessional verbs and emoticons.
All in all, this class improved my professional writing skills to communicate
during my work as a coordinator for a production. I am noticing the SLOs being
applied in my work as I started to improve my work documents to write more

concise and in parallel style. I hope that I will start writing with effective SLO points
without having to think about them in the future. Thank you for the lessons and
points to actually help me in real life situations through your class.
Sincerely,
Shin Sul