YOU attitude example: Student Letter of Application missing You Attitude: Without YOU attitude: Given my experience as Membership Management Trainee at Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, I have confidence in supporting the development and maintenance of the Annual…
English 301 99C Technical Writing
January 2022 Section 99C
Category: Instructor’s Blog
Editing out Imperative Verbs
Examples of how to remove imperative verbs: “You must make use of your headline by using good keywords referring to your field or interests so employers can find your profile when they are searching for candidates. Please fill in your…
YOU attitude: tips and examples
You can find a few post on Writing with YOU attitude on this blog, if you searc. However, learning the techniques of writing with YOU attitude is so valuable, I am dedicating this page to a collection of past YOU…
Editing out Pronouns
Hopefully, the YOU attitude hand-out and lesson has made a BIG impression on the significance of pronouns (and imperative verbs) in terms of shaping the tone and clarity of your writing. I have been asked why I wait until this…
Writing With You Attitude
You can find a few post on Writing with YOU attitude on this blog, if you search. However, learning the techniques of writing with YOU attitude is so valuable, I am dedicating this page to a collection of past YOU…
Surveys; a re-post
I am re-posting this important blog because as I read through Progress Reports, I am finding too many draft surveys that need revisions. Please take a moment and review your progress report to ensure you have correctly composed an ethical…
Tips for Peer reviews
One of the central goals of this course is to demonstrate how — through doing; by peer reviewing and rewriting, reflecting, and re-writing again, by doing these tasks, over and over, it becomes clear that writing is an art that improves with…
Research Methods
Take a look at the example of a conclusion for a Formal Report on pages 513 – 514 in the text book and you will see that your final goal is to provide a list of recommendations. The ultimate purpose of…
Avoid the Negative – stay Positive
Avoid the negative. Example: NEGATIVE: “The Arts Connection while maintains a high standard for their staff and students, many problems have risen, specifically during morning care, due to lack of overall structure and poor staff training. Staff being unprepared for…
Eliminating unnecessary words and including details
For the sake of clarity, brevity and ensuring details are highlighted, here are self-editing tips: In serious need of editing: I enjoyed reading your introductory sentence for your statement of the problem. I do not see any problems with the…
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