Hi Kathryn,

Nice to meet you! I am one of your classmates in ENGL 301 in Summer 2020. After reading your application letter, I am impressed with your determination to hone up your technical writing skills. I am writing to invite you to join my professional writing team.

Your technical and practical understanding from your previous degree and work experience have stood you out from the other candidates. I share the same concern with you in terms of writing style. I hope that through this course, I am able to improve my conciseness in diction where readers understand my key message, while you wish to develop strategies to improve writing and communication ability in this course. I believe that your analytical skills would allow you to provide technical and reasonable feedback to brush up our team’s overall performance.

Attached please find my application letter. Please kindly reply to this email to let me know your decision upon reading the letter. I am very excited to be in a team with you. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind Regards,
Alison

Hi Jie,

Nice to meet you! I am one of your classmates in ENGL 301 in Summer 2020. I am a fourth-year student studying International Economics at UBC. After reading your application letter, I am impressed with your ability in your past working experience as well as your learning attitude. I am writing to invite you to be a member of my professional writing team.

I like the way you take your study seriously. This really speaks out to me as I also have a sense of responsibility in my study and work. Your generosity in helping your classmates to solve blog-related problems on the CHAT page stands you out from a lot of other candidates. From my previous co-op placement, while my performance in a result-driven environment is evaluated, the team’s feedback and support are also essential to my output. I believe you are one of the few candidates that will provide useful suggestions based on your rich experience from your previous workplace and coursework at UBC.

Please see attached application letter. Please kindly let me know your decision after reading the letter. I am very excited to be in a team with you. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind Regards,
Alison

Hi Sydney,

Nice to meet you! I am one of your classmates in ENGL 301 this Summer. After reading your application letter, I am writing to invite you to join my professional writing team. Your international exposure in twenty-six countries and your professional and ethical communication skills from your previous work experience stand you out from other students.

I am most impressed with your exposure to global experience in Canada and Australia while maintaining a professional and dedicated attitude to your study. I think this is important for self-discipline. I personally take pride in my time management, so I think we both have the same discipline for managing our work properly.

I am also impressed with your language ability. You mentioned that you could speak fluent English, Portuguese and intermediate Spanish. I think your exposure to different languages would make you more familiar with the respective language structure, which helps to build your sensitivity to different writing contexts and diction.  Your exceptional ability would be able to give concrete and useful advice to our team for improvement in technical writing.

Please see attached application letter. Please kindly let me know your decision after reading the letter. I am very excited to be in a team with you. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind Regards,

Alison

To: Dr. Erika Paterson, Professor of ENGL 301 98A
From: Alison Ma
Date: May 22, 2020
Subject: Posting of Application Letter

After reading the instructions on ENGL 301’s class blog, I am writing to inform you that I have posted my application letter along with an attached word document on my student blog.

My application letter includes the following points:

• Skillsets from my Economics degree
• Professional Interest
• Technical writing experience from previous placements 
• My weakness in writing 
• My learning philosophy

Thank you for your detailed guidance in arranging this online course. I am looking forward to collaborating with my professional writing team for the rest of the term. Should there be any adjustment or feedback, please let me know.

Sincerely yours,

Alison

301 Alison Ma – Application Letter

5960 Student Union Blvd
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May 20, 2020

ENGL 301 98A – Technical Writing
University of British Columbia
2329 West Mall
Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4

Dear Classmates in ENGL 301,

Please consider my application for a position in your writing team as posted on Lesson 1:2 Assignment Instruction Page for ENGL 301 98A. Having written for public associations from my co-op placement in combination of my coursework in the Bachelor of International Economics degree, I am passionate to give concrete feedback and reflect on peer’s work.

As an Economics student, I am proficient in presenting abstract ideas to concrete and organized explanations. In my free time, I enjoy reading newspaper to understand macroeconomic trends and giving useful suggestions to resolve economic problems. In my team projects at school, I have developed excellent communication and time management skills. I take my work seriously because I understand my performance will directly influence my team’s output.

I am admitted to Arts and Business Co-op program. This exceptional exposure allows me to practice writing in different professional fields. My co-op experience at ADP Financial Ltd. and the Alzheimer Society of B.C. provided me audience-focused and precise writing skills, as well as to explore different styles of writing, such as Email and newsletter etc.

A weakness of my writing is conciseness. Sometimes I find myself repeating the same idea with unnecessary explanations. While my goal in this course is to learn writing in the right tone with the right diction, what I have been doing to improve this is to read a variety of materials and start early on my assignment to allow more time for proofreading and editing. This also speaks out to my learning philosophy, which is to learn through understanding. Defining the target audience, the purpose and the context of each writing assignment are key to a good piece of writing.

These accomplishments would make me an outstanding asset to your professional writing team. Thank you very much for your time to review my application. I would appreciate to be considered a member in your team. Please contact me at alisonma@alumni.ubc.ca. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours Sincerely,

Alison Ma

301 Alison Ma – Application Letter