In writing this cover letter, the schema did seem to be particularly useful and helped guide my writing. The only time it seemed to be constraining was the beginning paragraph on my cover letter, which I believe turned out to be very helpful since I wanted to include information that fits better into my background paragraph immediately after writing it. However, the schema alone was not nearly enough to draft my cover letter, as I still referenced the job description and other examples multiple times to figure out how to word my qualifications, as well as how to structure my background paragraph. I believe the background paragraph is by far that most challenging part of the cover letter to write, since I identified it as one of the main aspect of my first draft that I thought could change. My peer reviewer agreed with this thought, and the same applied for her background paragraphs. This makes me think that it might make sense to better specify or add elements to this part of the cover letter. Specifically, some ideas we had were to add sub elements under experience, or to define background paragraphs to mention just one experience each. This would mean if I was talking about my co-ops, I would split my writing into two background paragraphs, one for each co-op. Additionally, if I wanted to talk about my personal or school experience, I could separate that into a different paragraph as well. That being said, if we had done this initially, I could definitely see myself writing this design entry about how I felt very constrained when writing my background paragraphs, so I believe there should definitely be a balance for how defined this section is.
