The Analytical Cover Letter for Long Project I (500-600 words)

Please note that you are writing a letter addressed to me...write this analysis as a letter, not as a list of answers to the questions below.

This letter will tell me about the work you've done on this project and why you think that work is important, interesting, or revealing. Note that your analysis of this project counts as part of your long project grade, so you want to spend some time thinking about and writing this analytical coverletter.

• Begin your letter to me by telling me the title of your project & what topics you chose to investigate.
• Tell me the most interesting thing you learned doing this project & tell me the most interesting thing a reader/listener/viewer/visitor will learn from your project (may be the same thing).
• Tell me what medium you chose for this project (and if it's a website, give me the address).
• Tell me why you chose that medium and why you think it was appropriate for your topics.
• Tell me what research you conducted and why you chose those research methods in particular.
• Tell me about the feedback you received from your peers and what you did, or chose not to do, with that feedback.
• Tell me what this project says about your skills as a researcher, composer, reviser.

Then answer the following questions:

• If you had unlimited time and unlimited resources (money, staff, contacts), what would you do with this project?
• What problems, issues, challenges did you have with this project? If you solved those problems, tell me how you did it, and if those problems are still a problem with this draft, tell me what you might be able to do to solve those problems with another draft.
• Finally, most writers of ficition and non-fiction works like to acknowledge the many readers, friends, family members, and editors who contributed in some way to their work. You may want to acknowledge the contributions of your peer reviewers in this class, of your roomates and/or parents who read/watched/listened to your drafts, and of individuals in the Student Technology Center, Writing Center, or library who assisted with your project.

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