November 9, 2016

Dr. Leslie Bruce

California State University, Fullerton
University Hall Room 435
800 North State College Boulevard
Fullerton, CA 92081
Dear Dr. Bruce:
My time spent in Technical Writing has improved my writing skills because I now
understand the importance of rhetorical focus as a foundation in writing. The layout
of assignments ensured improvement in student learning outcomes (SLOs). This
letter is to showcase the six student learning outcomes have been met by my
written works. This portfolio has my revised proposal to the iFixit team, resume peer
review sheet, and an excerpt from my group charter.
The first document included is my revised proposal to the iFixit team that is
intended to persuade members of iFixit to pick our group to provide services for
their website. In formatting the document as a memo, Rhetorical Focus is met
because I formally write to iFixit for the job opportunity to break down and give
replacement instructions for the Logitech UE Boombox. Persuasion is achieved
because I demonstrate the need for my team to be chosen to write guides for the
device because of the little repair information that is currently available, issues that
would be best to create troubleshooting pages, and manageable replacement
guides topics with my camera specifications and dates that each milestone will be
met. The document is organized by topical headings such as Abstract, Introduction,
Project Description, and Timeline. These headings provide clear information that
iFixit required in their layout of an adequate proposal. In writing my proposal I
maintained proper language without gender or cultural biases which is important to
iFixit because their website is globally available.
The second document is Group Charter Peer Review sheet. This document is written
informally for the purpose of evaluating and presenting feedback to Fixit5 (SLO 1).
Feedback is given in correlation to the format and content of charter. For instances
feedback was given to, Align subject line with paragraphs because the formatting
was inconsistent (SLO 6). All the comments are concise and demonstrate sensitivity
to gender and cultural differences (SLO 5).
The third document chosen is an excerpt from the group charter intended to state
expectations and resolve any conflicts that may arise during our collaborating work
on creating guides for the device This is a formal document written to Dr. Bruce to
layout our goals and standard of conduct during the group project (SLO 1). For
conflict resolution and expectation cited resources are needed to find best ways to
easily and efficiently resolve any group dynamic stress. I quoted Markel, Williams,
and Townsley who gave a selection of ways that all groups should take to enhance
group dynamic (SLO 2). Organization of the document is important because it is
meant to be concise for ease of access. Topical headings were used like,
Expectation and Resolving Conflict (SLO 4). In the excerpt there is no language used
that would be interpreted as biased towards a gender or culture (SLO 5).

I believe that this class has improved many inefficiencies that are now transferable
as strengths. Identifying rhetorical focus and having organization improved the most
because of the frequency they were administered.
Sincerely,
Wesley Kamau
English 360 Section 1 Thursday