Final post of EG1471

By now I have studied in NUS for almost one year. I found that there are lots of differences between studies in university and polytechnic. The language level in university is very high, and the writing skills are necessary and quite often used to better express my idea in the report. The difficulties that I have faced when I write reports for my labs and projects include the limitation of vocabulary and organization of sentences.

As a Chinese student, my vocabulary is limited so that sometimes I cannot fully or correctly express my idea in the report. The readers may feel confused because of my wrong word using. Now this situation becomes better since through the one year study in university, we learnt professional vocabulary from the particular module and try to apply the professional language into the report. However, in the university class, the lecturers prefer to talk more knowledge that relevant but beyond our notes in order to wider our view. So I need to continue improving my vocabulary in future to have high efficiency of gaining knowledge from class.

Sometimes when writing a report, we prefer to express more information using fewer sentences. It always causes confusion on understanding when the tutor read it. This situation has improved since I take EG1471 module. During this module, we learnt the structure of a sentence and how to correct sentence to prevent confusion or meaning confliction. It is quite useful. Now, I like to show my meaning using some short and clear sentence in stead of a long sentence. My idea is shown clearer and more convenient to read.

Now we are coming to the end of this semester, although I will finish the English module shortly, I will continue doing some exercises, writing and reading more articles to improve my writing skills in future.