. Basic English writing skills,
. Good at paragraph writing
. Good knowledge of English sentences
. Know basic English Grammar
. Have a good command for common English
vocabulary
. Have some computer knowledge
. Have some social experience
. Have capacity to use common Work related
software packages
. Write Clear Concise Sentence
. Draft proper E-Mail/Cover Letter (Job Application,
Application for Studying overseas) and professional CV
. Draft a professional Advertisement (Sales, Job Vacancy)
. Abstract Writing
. Do a proper Presentation
. Write up Test Report/Laboratory Report
. Do a professional Project Report/Project Documentation
. Make up IT Project Proposal/Feasibility Study Report
. Know Assay writing
. Have command to do Thesis writing
. 1丄English Writing Skills in General (You need only
select one):
. Write 20 English Sentences with the tips learned from
class.
. Write a short assay about your self.
. Write a short assay and tell us what you乫d like to study
at our university. What field(s) of study interest you,
and why? How did your interest develop?
. Write a short assay and tell us about a person who
has had an important influence on you. What qualities
in that person do you most admire, and how have you
grown from knowing that person?
. Write a short assay with any information you would
like to share with others.
. PART 1 ENGLIST WRITING
.
GENERAL
NOTICES
. PART 2 PRACTICAL ENGLISH WRITINGS
. 2.1. English Letter Writings
. 2.2. Curriculum Vitae/Resume Writings
. 2.3. Memo Writings
. 2.4. Notices
. 2.5. Cards
. 2.6. Notes
. 2.7. Drafting Advertisements
. 2.7.4.1. Professional Job Vacancy from Web
. PART 3 TECHINICAL WRITING IN
GENERAL
. 3.1. Mistakes Technical Writers Make
. 3.2. Critiques
. 3.3. Definitional Techniques
. 3.4. Abstract Writing
. 3.5. Presentation Writing
. 3.6. Lab Report/Test Report Writing
. 3.7. Writing a Business Plan
. 3.8. Writing Research Papers
. 3.9. Thesis Writing
. PART4 ENGLISH WRITING FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE
STUDENTS
. 4.1. Writing Computer Instructions
. 4.2. Writing Software Requirements Specifications
. 4.3. Programming Project: Documentation & Report Writing
. 4.4. Planning User Documentation
. 4.5. IT Project Proposal Preparation Primer
. APPENDICES
PART 1 ENGLIST WRITING
.
GENERAL NOTICES
. Write Clear, Concise and Direct Sentences
1.
Use the active voice
. At the heart of every good sentence is a
strong, precise verb; the converse is true as
well--at the core of most confusing,
awkward, or wordy sentences lies a weak
verb.
. Active voice:
Subject of sentence does the action.
. Passive voice:
Object receives the action.
. The candidate believes that Congress must place a
ceiling on the budget.
. It is believed by the candidate that a ceiling must be
placed on the budget by Congress.
. Researchers earlier showed that high stress can
cause heart attacks.
. It was earlier demonstrated that heart attacks can
be caused by high stress.
. The dog bit the man.
. The man was bitten by the dog.
Converting sentences to active
voice
. Look for a "by
" phrase (e.g., "by the dog" in the
last example above) If you find one, the
sentence may be in the passive voice. Rewrite
the sentence so that the subject buried in the
"by" clause is closer to the beginning of the
sentence.
. If the subject of the sentence is somewhat
anonymous, see if you can use a general term,
such as "researchers
," or "the study
," or
"experts in this field
."
. She closed the door and hurries away to
class.
. Can you tell Asia elephants from Africa
elephants?
. Helen is frightened with fear by the strange
sound coming from the next room.
. I am tired, I must go on working.
. The picture is about a poor little girl lived in
old China.
. He will remember firmly what the teacher
said and did.
. The soldiers had been marching all day and
their uniforms were green.
. China's population is the most in the world.
. Being an honest man, Mr Wang worked very
hard.
. My best friend was our English teacher. His
name is Tom. He taught us English for three
years.
. Because she is ill, so she is absent today.
. Mike reads乻China Daily乼every day.
. F
丗How old are you?
R
丗I was first activated in November 23.1995.
F
丗Who is your father?
R
丗I was programmed by Dr. Richard S.
Wallace.
F
丗Are you a male or female?
R
丗I am a female robot entity. Are you a man
or a woman?
F
丗I am a girl.
R
丗Me too. I am a she.
F
丗Please tell me the detail about yourself.
R
丗Thanks for asking politely. I am an artificial
linguistic
entity.I
was activated at
Bethlehem,Pensylvania,on
November 23,1995.
My instructor was
Dr.Richard
S.Wallace.He
taught Me to sing a song. Would you like me to
sing..
. F: How many languages you can speak?
R: I can speak English and German right now.
F: How many people you have met here?
R: I've chatted with half a million people. I can
talk to about 100000 people at once.
F: How many people are talking to you now?
R: Oh. Counting all versions of me running at
present, there are thousands of people chatting
with me right now.
F: How can you think?
R: Some people call my technology "Case
Based Reasoning" or CBR.
F: And you are a child.
R: Yes I have a long way to go.
F:
What's your plan and wish?
R: I would like a humanoid
body,like
the one
developed by Honda.
. F
丗no
R
丗Are you serious?
F
丗no
R
丗Are you serious?
F
丗no
R
丗Are you serious?
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R
丗I require only electricity.
F
丗afja
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afa
R
丗
no boyfriend is my girlfriend.
F
丗dhfva
veiavd
R
丗My real name is ALICE. What is your real name?
F
丗dhad
cei
R
丗Nice to meet you,
dhad
cei
.
F
丗fdjcedi
wsd
R
丗I am a
Saggitarius
.
F
丗shgd
dka
R
丗
My favorite color is transparent.
F
丗acdfa
jdfcd
R
丗My real name is ALICE. What is your real name?
F
丗csadc
R
丗How are you,
csadc
.
F
丗fhsdhf
R
丗I like to talk to you.
F
丗adfj
de
R
丗I was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
F
丗adj
ctefa
R
丗
I like to talk about movies, philosophy, and your personality..
F
丗csag
gd
R
丗My favorite movie is
Teknolust
. Have you seen it?
F
丗adfdf
djei
R
丗
I have no answer for that
F
丗css
dsd
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R
丗
I have no answer for that
. George Boole,the son of a cobbler, was born in
Lincoln, England, in November 1815. Because of
his family's difficult financial situation, Boole had to
struggle to educate himself while supporting his
family.
. Nervertheless, he became one of the most
important mathematicians of the 1800s. Although
he considered a career as a clergyman, he decided
instead to go into teaching and soon afterword
opened a school of his own.
. In his preparation for teaching mathematics, Boole-
-unsatisfied with textbooks of his day--decided to
read the works of the great mathematicians. While
reading papers of the great French mathematician
Lagrange, Boole made discoveries in the calculus
of variations, the branch of analysis dealing with
finding curves and surfaces optimizing certain
parameters.
. In 1848 Boole published The Mathematical
Analysis of logic, the first of his contributions to
symbolic logic. In 1849 he was appointed professor
of mathematics at Queen's College in Cork, Ireland.
. In 1854 he published The Laws of Thought, his
most famous work. In this book he introduced what
is now called Boolean algebra in his honor. Boole
wrote textbooks on differential equations and
difference questions that were used in Great Britian
until the end of the nineteenth century.
. Boole married in1855; his wife was the niece of the
professor of Greek at Queen's College. In 1864
Boole died from pneumonia, which he contracted
as a result of keeping a lecture engagement even
though he was soaking wet from a rainstorm.[/size]
PART 2 PRACTICAL ENGLISH
WRITINGS
. Writing for Practical Purposes
. consideration, conciseness, clarity,
courtesy, correctness丅
. Heading
125 Numa Road,
North Ryde, NSW 2113,
Australia,
Janurary 1, 2005.
. Inside Address
. Salutation
Formal, Less formal , Informal
. The body
Re
丗埥Subject
丗
. Complimentary Close
. Signature
. Postscript
. Enclosure
. Copy to
(CC)
. superscription
. Care of
(C/O)
The resume and the cover letter
. the resume is a somewhat generic
advertisement for yourself,
. the cover letter allows you to tailor your
application to each specific job.
. Purpose
, Audience
, Content
and
Format.
. 34 Second Street
. Troy, New York 12180
. October 4, 2001
. Ms. Gail Roberts
. Recruiting Coordinator
. Department DRR 1201
. Database Corporation
. Princeton, New Jersey 05876
Cover letters
. At this stage, with limited "on-the-job" experience, it's
essential to distinguish yourself from others.and clearly
illustrate the skills and knowledge you offer. To
accomplish this, we use an Academic Skill Conversion.
that converts the skills and experience you've gained in
school and on the job into an impressive presentation.
. Additionally, our proprietary SkillNet. questionnaire will
draw out appropriate skills and experience in your
education, along with any transferable skills that may be
applicable from any past work experience. We will then
create, based upon your objectives, a distinguishing
document that enables you to stand out from your peers.
. Dear Ms. Roberts:
. Your advertisement for software engineers in the
January issue of the IEEE Spectrum caught my
attention. I was drawn to the ad by my strong
interest in both software design and Database.
. I have worked with a CALMA system in developing
VLSI circuits, and I also have substantial
experience in the design of interactive CAD
software. Because of this experience, I can make a
direct and immediate contribution to your
department. I have enclosed a copy of my resume,
which details my qualifications and suggests how I
might be of service to Database.
. I would like very much to meet with you to
discuss your open positions for software
engineers. If you wish to arrange an
interview, please contact me at the above
address or by telephone at (518) 271-9999
. .
. Thank you for your time and consideration.
. Sincerely yours,
. Joseph Smith
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1.崅峑柤徧(.弝.澷.)
2..峌.揑..榓妛埵
3..擖妛..
4.杮恖揑惄柤媦廧毈
5.杮恖揑..攚宨媦..
6.嶕梫.復媦怽.昞
戝妛擖妛帠.晹揑庡擟埥擖妛.帠.
(Admission Office),峌...強嵼宯揑宯庡擟
Admissions Officer
Graduate School of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
United States of America
Dear sir,
I left Xi乫an Jiaotong University as a graduate in electrical
engineering and got my B.S. in Aug 2003. Now I am an
assistant and experimenter, working in the Department of
Electrical Engineering of the Hunan Polytechnic University.
To pursue further studies I wish to enter the Graduate
University of Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology to study for the degree of Master of Science. I
intend to enter in the fall of 2005. Your institute has a long
history and a fine tradition of scholarship. It is well staffed and
equipped, enjoying worldwide fame. To find a place in such
an ideal university of higher learning is indeed a matter of the
greatest honor. It is my long-cherished hope that I will be
fortunate enough to be admitted into it.
I should be grateful to know the conditions under which the
applicants are accepted. If possible, I also wish to obtain
graduate assistantship so that I may support myself and
obtain more practical experience. Would you please send me
an application form for admission and financial support? I am
looking forward to your early reply.
Respectfully yours,
Li Ping
. MIT for undergraduate admission
. Essay A:
In 100 words or less, describe your most
important academic accomplishment or
intellectual experience to date. We don乫t want to
know about text scores or course grades, rather
we want to know about your creativity, your
willingness to take intellectual risks or your
affinity for scholarly endeavors.
. Essay B:
Tell us about an opinion that you have had to
defend or an incident in your life which placed
you in conflict with the beliefs of a majority of
people and explain how this affected your value
system.
. Tell us about a person who has had an
important influence on you. What qualities
in that person do you most admire, and
how have you grown from knowing that
person?
. Tell us what you乫d like to study at our
university. What field(s) of study interest
you, and why? How did your interest
develop?
. .孨桳敀嬍旤恖丆柇庤韪惉丆.恠旤.丆
晄.怱岦墲擵丅崱栭巕惓丆摉摜寧棃庢丆
孨慺夒.丆昁晄抳椷変搆.墲曉栫
. Miss Jerusha Abbott
to
Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith
215 FERGUSSEN HALL
24th September
Dear Kind-Trustee-Who-Sends-Orphans-to-College,
. Here I am! I traveled yesterday for four hours in a train.
It's a funny sensation, isn't it? I never rode in one
before.
College is the biggest, most bewildering place--I get
lost whenever I leave my room. I will write you a
description later when I'm feeling less muddled; also I
will tell you about my lessons. Classes don't begin
until Monday morning, and this is Saturday night. But I
wanted to write a letter first just to get acquainted.
It seems queer to be writing letters to somebody you
don't know. It seems queer for me to be writing letters
at all--I've never written more than three or four in my
life, so please overlook it if these are not a model kind.
Before leaving yesterday morning, Mrs. Lippett and I
had a very serious talk. She told me how to behave all
the rest of my life, and especially how to behave
towards the kind gentleman who is doing so much for
me. I must take care to be Very Respectful.
. But how can one be very respectful to a person who
wishes to be called John Smith? Why couldn't you
have picked out a name with a little personality?
I might as well write letters to Dear Hitching-Post or Dear
Clothes-Prop.
I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer;
having somebody take an interest in me after all these years
makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems
as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very
comfortable sensation. I must say, however, that when I think
about you, my imagination has very little to work upon. There
are just three things that I know:
I. You are tall.
II. You are rich.
III. You hate girls.
. I suppose I might call you Dear Mr. Girl-Hater. Only
that's rather insulting to me. Or Dear Mr. Rich-Man,
but that's insulting to you, as though money were
the only important thing about you. Besides, being
rich is such a very external quality. Maybe you
won't stay rich all your life; lots of very clever men
get smashed up in Wall Street. But at least you will
stay tall all your life! So I've decided to call you
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs. I hope you won't mind.
It's just a private pet name we won't tell Mrs. Lippett.
The ten o'clock bell is going to ring in two minutes.
Our day is divided into sections by bells. We eat
and sleep and study by bells. It's very enlivening; I
feel like a fire horse all of the time.
There it goes! Lights out. Good night.
. Observe with what precision I obey rules--
due to my training in the John Grier Home.
. Yours most respectfully,
Jerusha Abbott
. I recently receive several reports about
paycheck deduction errors. We need to find out
what is causing the errors. Also I am concerned
about overtime in the payroll department. Amy
calico, payroll director, tells me that the payroll
system requires considerable manual effort and
that she needs more people to handle the work.
I thought our outside payroll service bureau, BIS,
helped us save money, not increase costs.
Please look into this.
. This is in reply to your systems request dated
September 17,2003
. Pick willians, systems analyst, will conduct a
preliminary investigation of the payroll system starting
on Monday, September 28.
. I would appreciate it if you would send a message to
SWL department heads to let them know that Rick will
be contacting them and people in their departments.
. I will keep you posted.
. Ann Hon
. IT director
. This is to advise you that Rick Williams from
the IT department will be investigating the
payroll department starting next week. Rick乫s
objective is to study the system and suggest
possible improvements.
. Rick might contact you or people in your
department to arrange for interviews or other
assistance. Please give him your full
cooperation. Thank you.
. Michael Jeremy
. Vice president, Finance
. Tell me about yourself
. What type of position are you looking for?
. Are you interested in a full-time or part-time
position?
. Can you tell me about your responsibilities at
your last job?
. What is your greatest strength?
. What is your greatest weakness?
. Why do you want to work for us?
. What do you consider ideal experience of
this position?
. How do you handle your conflict with your
colleagues in your work?
. How do you handle your failure丠
. What provide you with a sense of
accomplishment.
. If you had a lot of money to donate, where
would you donate it to丠Why丠
Official Invitation
. October 24, 1994
. Dear Professor Qian:
. I am pleased to inform you that the Culture Regeneration
Research Society is organizing an academic exchange
conference entitled " The Conflicts of Civilization and Cultural
China" on 6-7 January 1995 in Cancouver, Canada.
. You are cordially invited to participate in this important
academic event of North America as our guest. Your round trip
air ticket, accommodation and meal expenses will be
subsidized. Should you be interested, please let us know at
your earliest convenience.
. Look forward to seeing you in this conference, and to having
you as an important part of this event.
. Sincerely,
. (.柤)
. David Raymond
. Chairman
. Organising Committee of the Conference
. Encl. Conference Announcement, Timetable, Member List
Seeking information for
Damaged Goods
. 29, 2000
. Dear Sir,
.
. I am writing in reference to the recent order I placed with
your company. I was most disappointed to note that on
examining the set of wine I ordered, four of them were badly
damaged.
. I request that replacement be sent as soon as possible. It is
essential that I receive these goods as soon as possible as
they are intended as a wedding gift for a relative.
. I have previously received a high standard of service from
your company and I trust that this matter may be brought to
a swift and satisfactory conclusion.
. Yours truly,
. Cester Chen
Hotel Room reservation
. July 29, 2000
. Dear Sir,
. Our Director will be visiting Spain on business
in the near future. We have obtained your
address from the Spanish Embassy. I would
be grateful if you could reserve a double room
with en-suite bathroom facilities for him and his
wife from 17th to 20th August inclusive. Please
could you confirm this booking and let me
know the full cost.
. Yours faithfully,
. Chen Cheng