Cover Letter #2
In Phase 2, I completed my first-ever Rhetorical Analysis Essay. I also learned how to properly analyze text for its rhetorical features. I signed up for CUNY Academic Commons, and took the first step in building my digital portfolio by creating a WordPress website. I wrote a 1-page summary of the text which I had summarized for my first Rhetorical Analysis Essay, Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue.” Creating a WordPress website was actually rather fun, as I have never created any form of website before. I was happy I didn’t have to code a new website, as I am not a Computer Science Major (that was a joke, I knew I never had to code to create a new website :-D.)
While this Phase was shorter than Phase 1, also a little less memorable, it had memorable moments. My favorite assignment of Phase 2 was definitely the first Rhetorical Analysis Essay. For this assignment, I chose to analyze my favorite story of this class, Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue. I hadn’t deeply analyzed text like that since my senior year AP English Literature class in high school. I also enjoyed creating my first website, which was also a very unique experience. One course learning outcome that I have gained from Phase One was “Recognize the role of language attitudes and standards in empowering, oppressing, and hierarchizing languages and their users, and be open to communicating across different languages and cultures.” I learned in this Phase to not take English for granted, and I also learned why deeply analyzing text is important, and how it can change one’s reading experience. I enjoyed creating my first personal website in this Phase, as well as analyzing text from Phase 1. By analyzing these Phase 1 texts, I had a new perspective on them.

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