Reflection Of ENG 194, Academic Writing In English

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At this spring semester, there is one of the most essential classes that I have taken at ASU which called ENG 194, Academic Writing in English taught by Professor Zhao. As I said, I am taking WAC at the same time, Introduction to Academic Writing, which is also a class about writing. However, compared with WAC, this ENG class concentrates more on practices, experiences gaining knowledge instead of grammar, vocabulary, and other writing techniques. Even though there is exclusively one class on each Wednesday I learned a portion of useful knowledge and skills on pragmatic writing through this semester, such as sending emails, interviewing as well as presentations, job applications and so on. As for the first project about sending emails, …show more content…
No wonder that the abundance of information I have learned even though it’s such a ten minute short conversation. I asked several questions of my most concern like the issue of late homework, education differences between high schools and colleges, as well as between China and America. So patient my professor is illustrating each question in her perspectives with teaching experience, detailed instances, and the specific explanation. Take the education differences as an example, she said the most apparent divergence between high schools and colleges is that the students are required to fulfill high schools but the colleges are optional especially depend on students own decisions. Hence, whatever the differences towards education are about facilities, requirements or knowledge levels, the determination all depends on the students own choices. On account of that, people studying at colleges because they are willing to be here achieving higher knowledge …show more content…
To be honest, I would not consider it as such a vital process just applying for a part-time job until I have learned the effects of a wonderful job application email as well as the close connection with the dream job. I choose office assistant as my part-time job because of abundant opportunities practicing softwares, enhancing communication skills and cultivating collating of data. All of them seem to be accumulated as my transferable skills. In addition, it’s also a way to explore my advantages by email the hiring manager brief introduction, and discovering my shortcomings which are supposed to be advanced. Nevertheless, I am aware of that there’s an amount of work I need to fulfill before being qualified for the dream job, the financial analyst. But I trust that provided that I’m willing to pay attention to all lessons I learned, all part-time jobs I tried, all opportunities I caught and I’ll be lucky enough to be one of the persons achieving the

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