Address your reflective letter according to your instructor's directions. According to the instructor's example in "Directions for Reflective Letter" on the website, flightlinehighline.edu, students should begin a reflective letter with a simple address, "To the Portfolio Readers." Proceed to succinctly describe what the reader will encounter in the letter's contents.
Follow your heading with a brief description of what the reader will see as they read your letter. If you have different types of papers, give a small sample of each type. If, for example, you have a research paper and a narrative fiction essay, provide the titles in your address.
Communicate what work you included in your portfolio and what you will say the work achieves. List the papers you selected for review. Allot one sentence for each paper to describe what you want the reader to know about the work. If you include a research paper in your portfolio, you might write that your use of footnotes has improved during the course.
Provide a brief statement describing what you have achieved over the course of the work. For example, you may write that you see an improvement in your use of descriptive language in narrative essays. Do this briefly for each paper included in your portfolio. End by writing that you will briefly review areas in which you still need improvement.