Category: Emails

To: cherylchao.27@alumni.ubc.ca
From: ayung.24@alumni.ubc.ca
Date: September 19th, 2019
Subject: Re: ENGL 301 Prospective Professional Writing Team

Hi Cheryl,

Thank you for considering me to be a part of your professional writing team for ENGL 301. It would be my pleasure to be a part of it. I have taken the time to read your application letter and agree that we would form a great professional writing team.

In my first bachelor’s I majored in psychology for a couple years before dropping it, so I took a fair bit of psychology courses. I understand how writing intensive the upper-level courses can be. With your exposure to various research articles and ability to summarize them, I believe that makes you a rather strong critical thinker and would be an asset to our writing team during peer review sessions. Furthermore, your experience working with children and youth exposed you to writing formal written communication with a variety of people such as parents, superiors or co-workers. I believe this will also be an asset to our writing team.

Your choice to pursue a career in the field of special needs education proves that you are a friendly person. I am sure only people who are passionate about helping people choose to dive into this field. It seems you are a great team player as working at summer camp and special needs youth after school care requires co-workers to be well coordinated with each other. I am sure we will form a great professional writing team.

Thank you for considering me to be part of your team. I am looking forward to working with you for the rest of the semester.

I have attached my letter of application for future review.

Amy Yung

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To: lisaliang@alumni.ubc.ca
From: ayung.24@alumni.ubc.ca
Date: September 17th, 2019
Subject: Re: English 301 Writing Team

Hi Lisa,

Thank you for considering me to be a part of your professional writing team for ENGL 301. It would be my pleasure to be a part of it. I have taken the time to read your application letter and agree that we would form a great professional writing team.

Your previous experience working with Collingwood Community Newspaper and Windermere Secondary School Newspaper proves that you are a strong writer. I believe this complements with my writing skills since I think of myself as a rather strong writer. Furthermore, your experience in the co-op program allowed you to gain exposure to formal writing communication which would be an asset to our writing team.

From your extra-curricular activities, it seems you are a great team player. By choosing to spend your spare time to lead and engage in group activities, it proves you to be a friendly and approachable person. I believe this will make you a great teammate to work with. Moreover, I agree that our strengths and weaknesses complement each other. We are both team players and strong writers. Some of my weaknesses are your strengths and some of your weaknesses are my strengths. I am sure we would form a great professional writing team.

Thank you for considering me to be part of your team. I am looking forward to working with you for the rest of the semester.

I have attached my letter of application for future review.

Amy Yung

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To: jojoxiaojing@icloud.com
From: ayung.24@alumni.ubc.ca
Date: September 17th, 2019
Subject: Re: ENGL 301 – Professional Writing Team Application

Hi Jojo,

Thank you for considering me to be a part of your professional writing team for ENGL 301. It would be my pleasure to be a part of it. I have taken the time to read your application letter and am excited to have met someone also in the BCS program. I believe we would work well together due to our similar backgrounds academically and professionally.

As we both worked at management companies, we have been exposed to rather similar forms of formal written communication between clients and our superiors. I believe this would aid in our peer-editing sessions since our writing skills would be on par with each other. Although you mentioned English is not your first language, your writing seems on par with native speakers.

I appreciate how you try to overcome your weakness in writing by having others review your documents. I also often have my superiors review all my documents before sending to ensure correctness. Therefore, I enjoy working in teams because it allows room for error. I believe you will benefit our writing team since it seems you are a team player. Furthermore, I agree with your learning philosophy about always going one layer deeper to gain further insight. This is similar to how I try to understand new concepts taught to me. By going one layer deeper, one can gain more insight and a deeper understanding of concepts. Our similarity with our exposure to formal written communication and our learning approaches will make it easy for us to work with each other.

Thank you for considering me to be a part of your professional writing team. I am looking forward to working with you for the rest of the semester.

I have attached my letter of application for future review.

Amy Yung

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To: Dr. Erika Paterson, Instructor of English 301
From: Amy Yung, Student of English 301
Date: September 15, 2019
Subject: Submission of Application Letter

As requested in Lesson 1:2, I have posted my letter of application to join a professional writing team for this course on my blog. Attached below is a copy of my letter of application.

My letter of application includes:

• Strong writing and peer-editing skills developed through English courses
• Experience with formal written communication at work
• My strengths and weakness
• My learning philosophy

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at ayung.24@alumni.ubc.ca. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Enclosure: Application Letter

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