Letter of Reflection (letter to Dean (chair of English department)) - Essay Example

Dean Faculty of English December 12, 2007 I hope my letter finds you in the finest of your moods and health. This gives me great pleasure to thank you and the esteemed faculty headed by you that inculcated a new person in me. After having completed my semester I feel proud of my English writing and creative skills. I feel this letter will illuminate the good work being done under your ambit of instructions and guidance. Although I have undergone a busy and rigorous schedule at times, but that exercise have given me new insights and confidence in writing.

At the outset it was a sort of new, difficult an inadaptable course however, over the time I became used to it. My persistence with the work and timely completion of assignments made it possible to catch up with the demanding environment of classes. My inquisitive nature won some good friends in the class and extra attention of teacher. Thanks to the broad smiles of my teachers they always welcomed my questions. This would be unfair if I do not refer here Dr Jones whose interesting and attractive styles made impossible things to understand very easily understandable.

This was because of his passionate teaching with the help of pictures and interesting stories that I shun my shyness over a short passage of time and became a lively character in the class. At the end of the course I am thankful to the interactive environment that left a lot of creative techniques in me. Now I want to draw your kind attention to the particular assignments we followed in class.1- Brief daily writings for about 30 minutes made me habitual of writing. This was basically a very good exercise to inspire me on writing on a continuum.

2- Exercises on autobiographies gave me a chance of retrospection on my past experiences and to jot them down in a comprehensive and systematic manner. This was again an impressively good manner of rediscovering an author in myself. 3- Literature analysis essays like the one I did on “Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen” mad it possible for me to understand how to analyze a text, conceptualize the text, relate it with the plot, and comprehend it from author’s point of view. 4- Persuasive writing on the visual items gave me confidence in formation of my ideas and portraying them in a correct, reflective and argumentative way.

5- While analyzing drama of Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice: I have been able to learn the conventions, language, character/plot, tragedy and comedy in a drama. The theater of imagination was the mort important thing that impressed me in this exercise. After having said all above, I would like to submit that my writing skills might have not improved that much had I not been perfectly exposed to a variety of readings on daily basis. The reading habits enriched my ideas on literature and made my ideas more sequential and logical.

This habit added volumes of vocabulary into my knowledge that I was never familiar with. I became familiar with the logos in literature while analyzing an appeal from logical point of view. Ethos, while analyzing it from morality point of view. Pathos for analyzing an appeal from emotions point of view. This put me on a path to metaphorical thinking. The elaborate literary studies on arts and music brought fluency, flexibility and originality in my writing abilities. I learnt the problem solving in literature through above studies.

Thanks to all above-mentioned course in the semester that now I feel much better and confident in English writing and creative skills. These skills will go a long way with me in my life and carrier. I will definitely choose the job of an editor or a columnist in a literature based English magazine. Now my eyes are brightened and sparking with a hope of success.Your faculty gave me a vital tool for success in life. I am again thankful to you and your faculty. Yours Sincerely.ABC