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Cover Letter
Cover Letter
June 20, 2007
Anna Peng
Dear readers:
I am Anna Peng, a student of political science major. This semester I took the advanced writing courses and learned about academic writing. My writing before was mostly informal and unprofessional. This lesson allowed me the chance to try academic writing in a serious way and gave me much practice and instruction. The following passage is going to show my growth as a writer.
Yet firstly I want to say thank you for taking the time to read my works for portfolio. My portfolio includes one reading log and three essay drafts for The Grass-eaters by Krishnan Varma, and final timed-writing.
The Grass-eaters appealed to me at the first time I read it, although I did not think I fully understand it and was not able to develop any systematical opinion towards it. The vivid description of Ajit Babu and their “eventful” experiences in finding a shelter let me burst into laughter several times during my reading. However the poverty the story showed and the deep-toned last sentence convinced me it was not just a simple humorous story. In my reading log, I identified it as a “sad carnival”.
I had a hard time trying to establish a thesis statement which could express my thought exactly and clearly after reading the story again and again. I either chose too a general statement which did not even make my thesis complete, or put too many details and too much information. I really appreciated Ron’s suggestion after my explanation of what I meant by the first proposal that it should be black humor. The term of “black humor” is not the first time I encountered but I was not sure of the concise meaning of it. So I searched the internet and found the electronic version of Columbia Encyclopedia, which give the definition of black humor. After several rounds of revision, I was finally able to make a concise and succinct thesis statement with the help of Ron.
The first draft is difficult. To start with, I read Rosa’s paper carefully to see how she develop her ideas and the Grass-Eaters as well to see more evidence and supporting details for my thesis that Krishnan uses black humor to express his criticism at the society. I highlighted these words and sentences and finally organized my essay in the order from Babu himself as an individual over his attitude towards family members to his view of society. Every paragraph was written in the same model with evidence in the first place, then pointed out where the black humor shows and finally analyzed its effect. One thing I did from the start is to explore into the background information of the society and got to know things like Naxalite underground, the social movement aiming to change India’s social structure and Diphtheria, the infectious and contagious throat disease, which proved to be good illustration of the society background.
It was reviewed by Linda and Zhouwei, my peers, apart from approval of my efforts, they pointed out that the thesis statement was not very obvious to notice, the analysis on black humor itself is too much compared with the explanation why it showed Krishnan’s criticism of the society and lack explanation of “sympathy”, the description of social background is too much.
In addition, I myself felt as well that there was much too improve as the structure of the composition is still somewhat messy although my peers felt it was clearly organized and gradually developed. I borrowed The Study of American Black Humor Novels from the library, trying to figure out why I felt so difficult to separate the using of black humor and its effect. After reading the book, I found out that the word “black humor” itself already contains both using and the effect, which makes it impossible for me to analyze where and how black humor is used in certain paragraph or sentences without mentioning its effect. In other words, we both use “black humor”, the tool to reach “black humor”, the effect. The book gave me the new idea that black humor is achieved by the characterization of the protagonist, who typically would be rebellious, anti-hero and not understandable in normal criteria of existing social system.
With the comments left by my peers and the inspiration from my reading, I decided to revise my essay and change the structure. I first analyzed Ajit Babu’s image and characteristics to let you understand the black humor Krishnan uses and in second part, then gave you the social background stated directly by Krishnan and revealed indirectly by Ajit Babu’s narration. With both parts combined together, how Krishnan uses black humor to criticize the callousness of the society can be shown. Another big change is the reduction of “sympathy” though I still believe Krishnan did sympathize with the poor people but it’s just hard to find evidence from the text.
Draft two was reviewed by Ron and he picked out many grammatical errors that I did not notice, mostly are S-v agreement errors and word form errors. He made suggestion that I should tighten the essay to make it shorter and so I did. I corrected these mistakes and reduced some redundant words and sentences. The quotations were revised to integrate better into my essay. Other changes were made to make it flow more smoothly.Many repeated proofs and irrelavent parts were also deleted.
Fianl draft is presented in Draft Three. I have learned how to analyze a story , how to establish an thesis and to receive and give comments. The expericen of reading, writing, thinking, searching information, discussing and communication is very rewarding.
Ron, thank you for your lesson and instructions you’ve given me.
Linda and Zhouwei, thank you both for being good peers and your critics and advice.
And thank you all for the patience to read through the letter.
Your sincerely, Anna
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