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👉Here is the worksheet for this task: Think of a cover letter as a piece of persuasive writing that aims to convey to an employer why you are a good match for a given position. Now your cover letter is included with your resume. However, the purpose of the cover letter is to give you a voice. Your writing should showcase your motivation for applying for the job and highlight your qualifications. Here is the situation: Your friend Mike is excellent at creating short form content for social media. It is his passion. He is creative with his video making and has grown his school’s social media following extensively. However, Mike needs to work on his writing skills and he has asked you to edit his cover letter. Your mission is to help your friend Mike by editing his cover letter. Clean up his mistakes and make his writing shine. Here is the letter. Good luck. Dear Ms. Gonzalez, My name is Mike Torres a senior at valley Oaks academy intrested in the social media manager position for the los angeles Dodgers and I was thrilled to come across an opening for this position on the Dodgers website as I am too social media manager for my school. My speciality when it come to social media is video I am great video creator and creative. On tiktok I have grown my school’s follwong from none to 55,000 followers. On instagram now my school has 87,000 followers. School’s youtube now has 38,000 subscribers and over 3 million views. I’ve done this creating innovative short form content. I am applying for this pocition because i believe I can elevate the online content for the Los angeles dodgers since short form content is booming and this is my specialty I know my ideas and creativity will help dodgers popularity with young people Thanks for your time and i hope to discuss more of my ideas further with you. Sincerely, Mike Torres 👉If you found this resource helpful, please support the channel by buying me a cup of coffee! My goal is to provide hundreds of FREE videos and worksheets for English teachers. Your generous donation would help me realize this goal. Thanks! 👉Blog and Website: 👉Tolentino Teaching Merch: 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more for online teaching resources: 🎥 WANT TO CREATE VIDEOS LIKE THESE? This is the software I use: 👨💻 LET'S CONNECT Instagram: Twitter: Facebook ELA Group: 👉My FAVORITE books on writing: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker: How to Argue with a Cat by Jay Hendrichs: The Elements of Style Fourth Edition: On Writing Well by William Zinsser:
