Dear reviewers,

I have received a myriad of feedback from various sources on my various assignments. I greatly

appreciate all feedback, some more than others. For instance, my first draft of my first

assignment was not personal enough, instead being broad and not focusing on myself, which in

retrospect was foolish since the assignment was focusing on one's own literacy experience. In

that assignment, I took that criticism to heart and reworked the second draft to be more personal,

which resulted in a B grade essay, not too great but much better than the non-personal, vague

first attempt. My first assignment didn’t receive much criticism, valued or otherwise, to speak of,

however my second assignment received more than enough valid, constructive criticism. A

primary concern regarding my first draft of the second major assignment is the lack of focus. I

was told I was speaking too much about both genre and discourse communities, when the

assignment called for just one singular topic to be focused upon. The topic I originally wanted to

focus on was discourse community, and an essential aspect outlined by the required reading was

the specific genres and forms of communication used within discourse communities by its

members, and I sought to demonstrate that aspect of discourse communities within my essay, but

the original execute made it seem as though I was not focusing on either topic completely and

instead flip-flopping between the two as the essay progressed. To remediate this, I reworded

sections to instead speak about “modes of communication” instead of genres, and when genre

was mentioned, I explained its placement within the essay with textual evidence, allowing it to

be mentioned and expounded upon thoroughly without the appearance that the essay is

unfocused. This serves to be an effective response to the lauded criticism previously mentioned,
both allowing my vision to be fulfilled while taking the criticism in mind and therefore staying

within the confines of the prompt and its restrictions. Another criticism I’ve received is in

relation to the lack of a conclusion and introduction in the first draft of my major assignment

two. These two paragraphs serve a necessary expository and storytelling function to the essay

and to appease this necessity and the reviewer, I added a conclusion and introduction in the

second draft. My second draft received zero criticism. Unfortunately because of this the letter

can no longer continue, but I believe with this padding sentence at the end it will reach the

proper word count and be acceptable to submit.

With warm regards, Joshua Scott.