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Ms. McCauley, This cover letter is for my essay for your class that I hope will encourage you to read “Facebook Has Transformed My Students’ Writing—for the Better.” By Andrew Simmons. The following is summary and review along my personal thoughts in more detail. The feedback given by my fellow students I found positive and negative. The negative part was partly on my classmate’s comments and my own personal feeling that I cannot do or say anything that is right. The better explanation is, I have in the past not been able to take constructive criticism as a positive which it should be, instead I have allowed myself to feel less of a person because of it. The negative or as I am still learning to tell myself, positive help should and will be utilized in my revision even if I feel it …show more content…

I then read “I’d put more life experiences into it to add a personal touch”. The comment feeling cold left me crippled for a while so I had to read some of Ms. Sappington’s writing to understand her viewpoints. Ms. Sappington likes to add quite a bit personal detail to her essay and response’s which prompted me to reread the assignment leaving me lost in most of her review. I read the assignments as personal touches to be placed in the second half of the essay. I received Ms. Sappington’s message well and revisited and added more personal details into my writing. When I stated, “I lost her” it was when Ms. Sappington said cold, I died a little, I then got up and said start over you are not 2. I also realized Ms. Sappington might put too much personal details in her writing and can lose track of her essays subject. I am turning this into my positive and meeting her in the middle with her suggestions. I feel I am on one end by not adding too much personal intake and I feel Ms. Sappington based on what I have read of her writing is on the other end. I did find Ms. Sappington’s comment regarding partial sentence not to be part of the

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