loi.tex: Adjust for the City University of Seattle
loi.tex: Adjust for Pierce College
loi.tex: Adjust for Pacific Lutheran University
loi.tex: Adjust for Olympic College
loi.tex: Adjust for South Puget Sound Community College The 'thebibliography' stuff is from Joseph Wright's [1] answer to a tex.SE question [2] by Faheem Mitha [3]. User contributions to tex.stackexchange.com are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported [4] with attribution required [5]. The content that wasn't already in loi.tex is mostly spliced in from the teaching philosophy [6] and research statement [7] I wrote for St. Martin's University. [1]: http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/73/joseph-wright [2]: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18033/using-bibtex-with-letter-class [3]: http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/3406/faheem-mitha [4]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ [5]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/ [6]: http://git.tremily.us/?p=teaching-statement.git [7]: http://git.tremily.us/?p=research-statement.git
loi.tex: Rephrase to avoid dragging up agnosticism I don't want to sound like I can't keep my mouth shut.
loi.tex: Blame ancestry instead of a mean sun
loi.tex: Open with thanks for the review
loi.tex: Set off my phrase about the mid-Atlantic with em-dashes This way folks will realize that the details are parenthetical.
loi.tex: Mention that I'm available for further discussion
loi.tex: Strip out bibliography stuff I don't have room for a table of references here ;).
loi.tex: Squeeze out a bit more space I'm trying to keep the whole letter on one page.
loi.tex: Back away from assuming they've hired me ;) Look forward to it, instead of being excited by it. Reword the end of the paragraph to avoid too much looking forward ;).
Convert teaching-statement template to a letter of intent