PB2a

                                   Name That “Move”

There are so many creative yet intelligent moves one uses when writing period. Every writing piece should have a purpose especially when it’s to persuade whoever the paper is intended for. In this student’s recommendation letter written by her teacher, the teacher uses her teaching experience when she explains how in her fifteen years of teaching the student she recommending is one of the best she has ever encountered. This move (citifying position) highlights to the reader that this teacher has a lot of experience and for two, in all her fifteen years as a teacher the student she is recommending must be special if she only mentioning this specific student as one of the best she’s come across. The writer goes into specifics on why the student (Stacy) sticks out so much by stating, “Stacy is a perceptive, sharp, quick individual with a high aptitude for math and science” {seeing that the program the student is trying to get into is engineering} this helps Stacy’s case even more because they play a big part in engineering. Another interesting move (personal level) the writer made was that she used the some of the student’s characteristics to scream out to the reader that not only would you be getting an educated student to your program but a great person as well. For example, the teacher states, “She's an active, outgoing presence in class with a great sense of humor”. She also includes “Stacy's the perfect person to get a group project rolling, but she also knows how to sit back and let others take the lead”. Just another way to stick-out to the reader even more.

What this recommendation also include is a move I would like to call an ongoing compliment. One should not expect anything less out of a recommendation letter. The sole purpose to pinpoint most or all of the good thing that specific person can bring to your university, organization, job and etc. In this case the writer precisely informed the intended reader about what the student can bring to their program while intelligently persuading the reader to accept the student into the program. One move I thought the writer could of included in this paper is a move an article called, “They Say, I Say” calls [Entertaining Objectives]. This would be courageous “move” by the writer because of the purpose of the writing but it would entertain, if you will how one may see the other side of the spectrum. I would like to say that after reading this recommendation letter I really persuaded that this student would be a great fit for an engineering program after reading what Stacy (the student) would be bringing to the table. Then again I’m not the intended reader that would be making the final decision on her acceptance am I? The teacher concluded he recommendation by stating the reader can reach out to her directly through via email if whomever reading had anything they would like to comment on. Now I would like to conclude that the moves the writer decided to make in this piece worked very well with what she was trying to get across to the reader.