and recently I obtained the certification necessary to prove my literary knowledge. However, I know that a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia is not enough to earn me my dream job. Even my hook of disparate double majors, Math and English, may seem overly reckless. Nevertheless, I promise that my passion for working with books and my talents for writing critical essays and logical proofs have made me a valuable intern and will lead me to excellence as a Publicity Assistant with Ecco.
Last summer, I joined Red Hen Press in Pasadena for thirty-two hours every week as a Publisher’s Office Intern. I composed new sections of their business plan and author questionnaire and planned a groundbreaking ceremony and fundraiser for their new space. After I proved my ability to efficiently handle large tasks, I managed multiple key projects as I simultaneously organized the physical reconstruction of the new building, planned the groundbreaking, and continued assisting the publisher, Mark Cull, in miscellaneous endeavors. The latter tasks required me to innovate and improvise as I managed his schedule, debugged engineering software, researched zoning
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Previously, I have written press releases for Red Hen’s fundraiser and for its partnered groundbreaking ceremony. I would be honored and thrilled to write publicity copy and facilitate press for Ecco’s praiseworthy authors and their books, frequently recognized as both literary and commercial achievements. Ecco has an unbelievable arsenal of authors, several of whom inhabit my to-read list—I am really interested in Amy Tan’s memoir, Joyce Carol Oates’ novels, and Litt’s Thanks, Obama, to name a few. If you contact my previous supervisors and professors, they will attest to my ardent, engaged personality and value as a hardworking team
Co-author of “They Say/I Say” handbook, Gerald Graff, analyzes in his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” that “street smarts” can be used for more efficient learning and can be a valuable tool to train students to “get hooked on reading and writing” (Graff 204). Graff’s purpose is to portray to his audience that knowing more about cars, TV, fashion, and etc. than “academic work” is not the detriment to the learning process that colleges and schools can see it to be (198). This knowledge can be an important teaching assistant and can facilitate the grasping of new concepts and help to prepare students to expand their interests and write with better quality in the future. Graff clarifies his reasoning by indicating, “Give me the student anytime who writes a sharply argued, sociologically acute analysis of an issue in Source over the student who writes a life-less explication of Hamlet or Socrates’ Apology” (205). Graff adopts a jovial tone to lure in his readers and describe how this overlooked intelligence can spark a passion in students to become interested in formal and academic topics. He uses ethos, pathos, and logos to establish his credibility, appeal emotionally to his readers, and appeal to logic by makes claims, providing evidence, and backing his statements up with reasoning.
English in its entirety can be simply described as author, biologist and physician, Lewis Thomas had once said, “We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other” (Thomas 120). The impact literature can bring onto others is simply amazing and is a gift that should be shared with everyone. This spring semester has quickly broadened my perspective. Being that this is my freshman year in college I prodded around ideas of what majors I had interests in. I toyed around with political science, but I found that I spent more time on arguing with what the political figures stood for than actually studying. I was almost certain I wanted to be an interior designer but I became overly fixated on how to properly draw three dimensional boxes to further myself any farther. Truth be told, I am the type of person who rather create something encrusted with detail than something cut in dry like politics or basic shapes. I have always have had a love for literature and especially poetry. At age eight I became a published poet in a children’s book. Even at a young age I knew with words I can create something to quench my need to express how I feel about a certain topic or issue. Therefore I have recently declared myself as a literature major. Through the structured English 1B's course and power of words from authors; Boisseau, Bishop, Glaspell and Ibsen I have gained valuable life lessons .
Alexie, Sherman. “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Writer’s Presence: A Pool of Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Robert Atawan and Donald McQuade. Boston:Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006. 73-76. Print
Ungar, S. J. (2010). The new liberal arts. In G. Graff, C. Birkenstein, & R. Durst (Eds.). “They say, I say”: The moves that matter in academic writing with readings. (2nd ed.). (pp. 190-197). New York: W. W. Norton. This article looks to prove that liberal arts education is just as valuable as “career education” because contrary to general belief, career education doesn’t guarantee high-paying jobs after they graduate.
Rose, Mike. “Blue-Collar Brilliance”. “They Say / I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings. 2nd ed. Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 243-54. Print.
Daniel Jones is a young Chinese American man with dark hair. He is straight out of college, but already has a job as an investigative journalist who who writes online articles for Apogee Daily News.Having just arrived in the company Daniel has not made a name for himself as a reporter, and does not have a significant role in the organization. However, he is confident that he’ll gain a more prominent position in the organization if he he can find a juicy enough story for his employers.
Elsenbach, B., & Kaywell, J. (2013). Making an Impression: YA Authors and Their Influential Teachers. English Journal, 102(5), 74-79. Erin Gruwell. (n.d.).
Tan, Amy. “Two Kinds.” Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing About Fiction, Poetry, Drama and The Essay.4th e. Ed. Frank Madden. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. 253-261. Print.
From this course I have learned that being a writer is much more than writing grammatically correct. A writer is one who studies deeply and takes into mind the audience and the context and then begins to form their paper. Writers are rhetor’s, encoders, and members of discourse communities. As a writer, I hold the power to influence anyone that reads my writing, whether I intend to influence that person or not. Being a writer from my understanding this semester should actually be called a rhetor or encoder, because just about every piece of writing contains rhetoric and intertextuality of some sort, whether you consciously recognize it or not. I find that the knowledge, skills, and new ideas I have acquired this semester will significantly influence not only my college career but also benefit my life in general.
I am writing this letter in the hope of working for Farrar Straus & Giroux as an editorial assistant. I have been well aware of FSG’s excellence in publishing books that have shaped the landscape of American literature, in connection to marginal yet transformative memory of writers in and outside America. And I believe that my education, skills, experience and character displayed in this application would suffice to join FSG’s continuing projects of doing justice to the liveliest works emerging at the crossroad of literary legacy, conflicting cultural reflections and writerly inventions in this liberating era of literature and its spirit of reconfiguring literary canons.
and Other Greats : Lessons from the All-star Writer's Workshop. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. Print.
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is one of my favorite poems for many reasons, but recently it has started to gain new meaning as I face graduation. I have started to wonder how different my life would be if I had only chosen to travel down one road instead of sprinting down both roads at the same time. When I declared my biology major, my dad expressed concern that I was choosing one possible life and career over another possibility. He said he knew how happy writing made me and he wondered if I was doing the right thing in not pursuing that. He spoke the words I had not yet spoken out loud for myself. “You shouldn’t enter college worried about what you will do when you exit,” said David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, at a World Economic Forum panel discussion last week on the state of the humanities. Rubenstein’s words are true now and they were true then: I should not have worried about choosing so soon. After I arrived at Columbia College, I began taking English courses because I could not take biology courses without at least trying to explore my passion for literature and creative writing. Thanks to time at Columbia College, I started to see the value the required courses of the WPDM major more because of what they taught me about myself than what they taught me about the subject matter. Combined with my classes, my internship experiences have confirmed that I am indeed heading in the right direction. I could not become a successful writer and biologist without the valuable set of skills that I have gained through my time at Columbia College. I believe I made the right choice by choosing both roads.
Lerych, Lynne, and Allison DeBoer. The Little Black Book of College Writing. Boston, New York:
Two years ago, I was writing my letter of intent for my application to the Master of Public Administration (MPA) with a concentration in Healthcare Administration revealing my failures, and most significantly, that I lost my passion and didn’t know where to start. I also conceded that I was relatively unaware of the field of Public Administration (PA). Little did I know, examining PA theories would enable me to connect the final dots in the big picture of my life, where I came from, who I’d come to be, what choices I’d made, the relationships I nurtured, and my dreams and desires for the future. Although confidence came slowly and awkwardly, I discovered my desire to contribute to the advancement of public health policies. I am writing to express my interest in continuing to the Doctoral program in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). I am absolutely interested in the commitment to the advancement of knowledge, and confident my experience in higher education and academic research will contribute to my successful completion of the Ph.D. program, in the specialization area of public policy.