Tom Lee's Writing Portfolio

Cover Letter

Cover Letter

Welcome to my writing Blog!

Hello, I’m Tom Lee, a student of Fudan University in Shanghai. Though my major is Computer Science, I love writing a lot. Now and then I use to write some small articles. However, I have confidence in my Chinese ones' popularity among the class, not English ones. So with a heart of improving my English writing complement, I chose Mr. Corio’s course of academic writing, and determine to have a try. Till today, this trial never lets me down. Every time I have a view with this Blog, my heart is full of pride and delight. 

My career as a writer starts from six year old, or earlier. But it takes me a little longer time to become an English one. I’ve written numerous passages, and quite a lot of them won the favor of my teacher and classmates, and spread widely. Once I entered for an English test for the Admission Examination for Hang Kong University, the result is still quite pleasure (I got a A.D., one of 250 among 5000 competitors!). It seems nothing prevent me from being content with my English writing. Though not look luxury, it could be a breeze of flowers. However, the more famous works I read in my spare time, the more shame I am in my English writing. Hemingway’s is short and tough; Shakespeare’s is mild and romantic; O Henry’s is amazing and profound. Compare with them, it comes to my mind strongly that I should improve my English writing ability. Luckily, I come across this course, to me, which is a lifeboat in the vast English sea.

As a matter of fact, it is really a sheer of luck for me to choose this course. When the time for selecting courses has come in my university this semester, it was full for the first two weeks! And just in the last few minutes of the selection, I found one site available and got it. In the very first class, I know why the situation is like that. My teacher, Mr. Corio, is a kind and patient gentle man, who is a master in English Writing for more than twenty years. His comments for the articles, which I wrote, always hit the point, which clear and careful reminds me the weakness in my writing. It makes me improve very fast. Also, like reading log, essay, timed writing and this cover letter, every students in the class got substantial things to write! The way approaching perfect in English writing is unbelievable interesting in class! Also this class provides a free and open environment, in which all classmates share their writing with each other in the Class Assistant on the Internet. It is a great pleasure for me to read my peers’ articles in the same topic, with an opposite thesis statement! Though not very familiar with my classmates at first, I found that they did a really good job, which made me feel more pressure to enhance my own ones. Share is one of the best virtues that human possess, is not it J? As a whole, my English writing improved a lot and I create this Blog. 

Above all, I find my priceless treasures in this course, and put them all in this Blog. Now you know the secret for the birth of this Blog; in return, I ask you to try to believe that, what I treasure here will make you enjoy reading and writing.