Saturday, April 11, 2009

Difficulties in writing in university classes

First of all, I have not encountered many difficulties in class due to the essence of engineering study which does not require too much article writing. However, I do have certain assignments and reports which requires certain skills of writing. The most noticeable example would be the design assignment I have done in this semester where we have decided to style the report in a product proposal form.

When I was writing the product proposal, I paid careful attention to my mistakes in grammar usage as I am conscious that such mistakes would give a terrible impression to the upper managements or the customers if this is a real life scenario. After I finished each sentence, I would read the sentence again once or twice to check for its structure or grammar. However, that does not warrant that I would make no mistakes at all in the proposal. Thus, I have my group member check my part of my part of the proposal while I check his to correct any error whether in content, or language usage. This cross checking process proved to be useful as I could learn a lot from others mistakes and it could help minimize the errors in our proposal.

I have interests in novels such as thrillers and mysteries so I have put in some of my time into reading and this have gradually improve my sentence structure in writing as I am exposed to more and more different styles. This would certainly come in handy when I am required to do any assignment involving writing in it as I could have more varieties of structure rather than just repeating and inducing boredom. However, the piles of work on the table have been preventing me from reading much these days but I certainly hope that I could start reading more again soon in the holiday. I believe that reading is crucial in improving language mastery as it would improve my vocabularies, sentence structures, sentence styles and many more. Of course, I would also agree entirely if one says that speaking in a certain language more often would greatly improve its mastery.

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