Zihao Fu2013 Kerr DriveManhattan, KS 66502December 8, 2014Bill Hancock11440 Tomahawk Creek ParkwayLeawood, KS 66211Dear Mr. Hancock:Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. (MHM) is no doubt one of the most successful public accounting firms in US. Today, MHM spans from coast to coast and is a nationally recognized alternative to the Big Four. I, as an accounting student, would definitely be happy to work for a company like Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. I have craving for an internship at MHM for a long time, therefore I searched for available internships and found one Audit and Tax Intern suits me the best. Then I analyzed company’s criteria for recruitment: the completion of CPA Exam, the pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in accounting, high efficiency as a team player, the proficiency in verbal and written skills and the performance on following orders. In fact, these are the skills and qualities I just have. After taking Expository 200 this semester, not only did I had some of my skills enhanced, but I also gained some other skills from the class that are unquestionably crucial to equip for better performance in the organization. I will explain my assertion with examples of my essays.The very first thing I learned from the course is to be organized. Through out all the papers that we have done, every one of them requires me to write in a well-organized and logical order. Especially the persuasive research essay which was on counterfeit watches, it needed me to do a lot of research to support my three reasons. But it did not stop here, it further required me to stand in the shoes of those who would hold different opinions from mine and form reasons with support to rebut these opinions. This is a very organized and logical order as it goes from a shallow argument to a deeper level of thinking. With such training in the English writing class, I now have well established sense of presenting my flow of thoughts in logical and organized order and I believe it is important to present our work to clients in a clear and comprehensive order.Another skill I acquired from the course is the ability to summarize. In the paper for response editorial, where we were asked to summari ze Sean Gregory’s editorial, I managed to make a six-page long editorial into just a few sentences yet still retains the main idea of the paper: “By bring out Johnny Manziel’s incident, he points out that it is unfair for athletes not getting paid as they put so much effort in the game while their coaches, schools and even the local community are making m illions of dollars and gaining huge benefits from athletes’ free work. Gregory further claims that although scholarships are granted as a compensation for the athletes, it is still impossible to cover all of their expenses, as they are not allowed to find part-time jobs. Thus Gregory proposes, all athletes should be eligible for payments in addition to any scholarship and be allowed to make money in other ways, as the college sports are already impure” (ResponseEditorial, p1). My teacher Miss Megan Birdsey also approved the summary with the remark “This is a great case summary of Gregory’s article”. Being able to summarize efficiently is very important for work. I know at work it is very often to encounter cases where a lot of information is given. It may appear to be having no clue to deal with it at first, but after summarizing the content in the documents we will be able to understand the task better and pick out only the most useful information.Finally, by taking the course, I am now better at analyzing the audience. In the persuasive research paper, I chose counterfeit watch buyers as my primary audience. After analyzing the reason of why people purchase fake watches and find out that they usually buy these products based on three reasons. First one being they think the cheap imitation is 100 percent like the original. Second reason is they think the fake ones have no difference from the real ones in terms of functionality. Their last reason is that buying fake watches is cheap and will not have any legal issues. Hence I formed my argument based on the previous points. With lots of supporting evidence, I argued: “Firstly, a lot of the fake watches can in fact be recognized; secondly, fake watches do not work as good as genuine ones; ultimately, purchasing fake watches can cause legal issue” (Persuasive Research, p1). Such audience based reasoning worked out well. In the comment by Miss Megan Birdsey she says “ You have a solid argument, use solid audience-based reasoning and support your argument using ap propriate evidence.” In future work, this audience-based technique will have many more applications. In dealing with clients, I can treat them as my audience and think from their point of view to better serve them.In general, I believe after my description of my skills and overall fulfillments of the Expository 200 course, you would find that I am well qualified for the Audit and Tax Intern。