Write a three pages single spaced of cover letter
A successful portfolio cover letter must meet all of the following criteria:
• Be two to three pages long;
• Identify each of your portfolio’s submissions by title. Please use quotations when referring to your submission titles in the cover letter-e.g., “When Lightning Strikes: A Study of Inspiration”;
• Provide an analysis of the submissions contained in the portfolio. To do this, avoid extensive summary;
• Demonstrate sustained writing self-awareness. Awareness includes your ability to be reflective about your own writing strengths and weaknesses;
• Point to specific examples from your submissions that illustrate the claims you have made about yourself as a writer;
• Demonstrate knowledge of the writing, revising, and editing process by showing how this knowledge applies to the submissions in your portfolio;
• Describe your strategies for researching and integrating sources;
• Reflect on the ways in which you have written/revised to accommodate audience needs, expectations, and/or values.
Your cover letter may also:
• Explain your reasoning behind selecting and ordering your submissions;
• Discuss the ways in which you continue to address your writing weaknesses;
• Discuss your strategies for writing and revising and point to specific examples in the submissions for how those strategies affected the submission;
• Detail the process by which you solved a writing problem;
• Discuss and provide examples of patterns in your writing.
