Assignment 5: A rewiev on assinment 3 and 4

When designing my own assignment I wanted to do something that could be useful for the future in our teaching proficiency. I decided on letting my classmates writing a cover letter for a job application as a teacher since that is something we all sooner or later have to make in order to get a job. The aim of the task was to prepare for the future and practice on writing a formal application with all things that has to be included. Since nobody has responded on that assignment (which is an effect of a mistake I made, somehow my comment on Marie´s assignment did not show up in her blog which caused that two people chose her and no one was left to chose my assignment) I cannot evaluate it. The only conclusion I draw is that the assignment maybe was a bit too difficult or hard or maybe even boring.

I chose to do Marie´s assignment which was an application for money for making a trip with students to London. I decided upon it because I found it useful and instructive. What I mean is that it is not unlikely that I have to write such an application in the future and anyway I find it a good exercise in writing formal letters which is something that I surely to a greater or less extent will have to do in the future. I tried to follow her instructions when writing it and according to the response she gave me I think I succeed.

By looking around in my classmates´ blogs I got a lot of tips and ideas about how to use different kinds of writing in order to improve myself and to convey different messages. Since we will become teachers I think the way of letting us create our own assignments and assess the classmates work is a good task which gives us instructive experience for our future working life.