Introduction Letter

Hello everyone! I'm writing a letter introducing you guys to my work this quarter in
Writing 2. My works mainly focus on creative music listening teaching. I believe most of you
have experienced this: When attending a music class, music teachers play a music part and ask
you to listen to it. Then require you to write down some ideas but compare your answers to the
only correct one. This traditional approach plays a significant role in music class. However, there
is an innovative method that I want to introduce to you, so I choose music listening teaching as
my topic. I hope my website could further stimulate your interest in music listening.

Writing 2 provides me a new understanding of academic writing. According to L. Lennie

Irvin in his article "What is Academic Writing," "Our words on the page are silent, so we must
use punctuation and word choice to communicate our tone." We need to put ourselves within the
context and imagine communicating with the audience in academic writing. In Writing 2,
Professor Johnson taught us how to write within the situation by introducing concepts like genre
and rhetoric. She designed activities like "Murder, Rhetorically Activity" and other group work
to further understand the rhetorical situation's meaning. Professor Johnson also posts many
related readings to help us in writing projects and revisions.

Revising my WP1 and WP2 offers me meaningful experience that benefits my future
academic writing. One of the problems in my projects is insufficient analysis. When I introduce
an idea or a concept, I fail to explain or illustrate it in more detail, resulting in readers' confusion.
When summarizing, my point is vague somehow due to insufficient supplement and unprovided
information. To inform the audience of my intentions, I add more explanations and detailed
information following the general argument. Another problem I encountered is transition.
Between paragraphs, I fail to connect them smoothly with comparison and link. To provide
readers with a good reading experience, I ask a question at the end of the paragraph or add some
introduction before the next one for a smooth transition.

I organized my website by giving each work a title and assigned them subsequently, so
you can see how I improve my work and how I make progress. I select a peer-reviewed article
and translate its genre to a student evaluation, talking about a music teacher and his creative
teaching method. WP1 consists of two parts, including translation and explication essay. In my
explication, I analyze the relationship between the student evaluation and the peer-reviewed
article. WP2 aims to demonstrate why creative music listening is beneficial from five different
genres. In the annotated bibliography, I summarize the main argument in these sources and
clarify why they are related to the central thesis. I think this work is meaningful, and I have never
done this before. I put annotated bibliography before my WP2 so that you could have a basic
understanding of my argument in WP2. When designing my website, I enjoyed choosing
background photos which I selected deliberately to fit my topic. I hope you guys know more
about creative music listening through my portfolio. Finally, thank you again for visiting my
website!
 Works Cited

Irvin, L. Lennie. “What Is ‘Academic’ Writing?” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume
1, Parlor Press.