You will need the student’s background. He is a Chinese international student studying in U.S.
Instruction:
Your task is to write a letter to a friend, teacher, or relative pick someone smart who would be interested in the connections and ideas you are starting to uncover as you work with your texts and your personal experience. Help your letter-reader understand what concerns you in these texts, what you are still trying to figure out, what you might never figure out, how you came to see the texts as you do.
Think about what your reader will have to be told about the essays and the knowledge you have brought to your readings. You must 1) provide textual evidence (direct quotations and paraphrase) from both essays; 2) convey the personal importance of what you have seen and learned and are now trying to relay (by using the personal experience/expertise you wrote about in your last assignment); and 3) provide thoughtful explanations about the connections and their implications.
As letters don't include a Works Cited page or parenthetical references, you must make clear in your text what essays you are writing about, what phrases, images, moments, or ideas you are discussing. Also, your task is to keep your recipient interested in your letter until the end, without telling him or her that you are writing to satisfy a class requirement. I expect to understand this is a letter by much more than the basic letter form of date, salutation and sign-off, which of course you should include, as well.