To        : Brooke Bowles (brooke.bb@hotmail.com)
From    : Lani Diana (lani.diana09@gmail.com)
cc         : Erika Paterson (erika.paterson@ubc.ca)
Subject : Invitation to form a professional writing team
Date     : May 26^th 2017

Dear Brooke,

I’m writing to invite you to join our professional writing team for ENGL 301 class. After reading your application letter, I believe that you would make a great contribution to the team.

As students coming from different background, I believe that your knowledge in Economics, a field different from mine would allow us to explore a more diverse and broad perspective of technical writing. It’s good to know that your dedication and diligence towards the completion of this course would make a great asset to the team.

I have attached my application letter to this message for you to review. If you feel that I am someone you can work with, feel free to contact me through my e-mail at lani.diana09@gmail.com. I hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards,

Lani Diana

Attachment: 301 Lani Diana application letter

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To        : Michael Aaron Robinson (m.aaron.robinson@gmail.com)
From    : Lani Diana (lani.diana09@gmail.com)
cc         : Erika Paterson (erika.paterson@ubc.ca)
Subject : Invitation to form a professional writing team
Date     : May 26^th 2017

Dear Michael,

I’m writing to invite you to join our professional writing team for ENGL 301 class. After reading your application letter, I believe that you would make a great contribution to the team.

Your experiences in managing a yacht club of several hundred members and being a principal liaison in office works show that you have an admirable management and leadership skill. Not to mention, your previous experience in writing different types of office reports and memorandum would be very beneficial to the team.

I have attached my application letter to this message for you to review. If you feel that I am someone you can work with, feel free to contact me through my e-mail at lani.diana09@gmail.com. I hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards,

Lani Diana

Attachment : 301 Lani Diana application letter

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To        : Robert Trigo
From    : Lani Diana (lani.diana09@gmail.com)
cc         : Erika Paterson (erika.paterson@ubc.ca)
Subject : Invitation to form a professional writing team
Date     : May 26^th 2017
Dear Robert,

I’m writing to invite you to join our professional writing team for ENGL 301 class. After reading your application letter, I believe that you would make a great contribution to the team.

I find your various experiences with different type of written communication to be very impressive and having someone with more experience would certainly be very helpful as you can give us valuable feedbacks on our projects. Given that both of us have good time-management and organizational skill, I believe we can work efficiently and effectively as a team.

I have attached my application letter to this message for you to review. If you feel that I am someone you can work with, feel free to contact me through my e-mail at lani.diana09@gmail.com. I hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards,

Lani Diana

Attachment: 301 Lani Diana application letter

MEMO

To         : Dr. Erika Paterson, ENGL 301 Instructor
From    : Lani Diana, ENGL 301 Student
Date      : May 24^th 2017
Subject : Application Letter has been posted

I have posted my application letter on my UBC blog website. The context of my application letter is as follows:

• Professional experience as a tutor that shows my skill.
• University and work experience that allowed me to have some exposure to technical writing.
• Strength : responsible, detail-oriented,and organized.
• Weakness : difficulty in expressing opinion and perfectionism.
• My belief of the outcome in learning.

Please review my application letter and let me know if there is anything else I need to provide.

Enclosure: 301 Lani Diana application letter

602 Como Lake Ave
Coquitlam, BC V3J 0G2

May 24, 2017

ENGL 301 Technical Writing
Summer students
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

Dear ENGL 301 classmates:

Please consider my application as a professional writing team member for 301 technical writing class as advertised on the course website. Currently, I am a 3^rd year student who will be graduating in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Professor Erika Patterson, the class instructor, encouraged me to apply for this position with three other members from ENGL 301 class.

During my studies, I had the opportunity to work as a tutor in the Mathematics and Statistics Activity Center in a college. Other than helping students with their study, my duty also included helping the instructors conducting weekly tests by marking the tests and recording the student’s grade in a limited time. I also had the chance to accumulate some experience of using technical communications such as emails and memos, either directed towards other tutors or the instructor, in regards to the students’ progress. Aside from my working experience, in both college and university I took a couple of statistics courses where as a team, we had to conduct a research and make proposal and final report.

My experience shows my strength as a detail-oriented and organized student. I take responsibility very seriously and I always make sure to finish my job properly within the deadline. My weakness is, due to my shy nature, I may not voice out my opinion as often as others initially. Sometimes I can also be too perfectionist that sometimes slow down my own work. However, I believe I can overcome my weakness through hard work and practice.

I believe that practice helps people to improve in their learning as it allows people to see things from different perspective. As a mathematics student, to understand the materials taught in class, I often do practice, either the ones assigned by the teachers or just some random questions I found in textbook. Through practice, I always manage to find new things to learn, even if it come from something that I have done before.

Thank you for the time you have taken into reading my application. As a focused and capable student, I am sure I can make a good contribution to your team. You can reach me anytime through my email at lani.diana09@gmail.com or through the English 301 Sept 2014 Facebook page. I hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,

Lani Diana

301 Lani Diana application letter

English 301 is a study of principle of written communication in working environment where students learn how to write the technique for professional purpose, both theoretically and in practice. This course acts as a learning forum for students, where they can get feedback from professor and classmates in an online classroom environment, such as Facebook group page, students’ blog, and instructor’s blog.

The course starts up by polishing our technical writing by giving us some exposure to the theory of elements in technical writing, and giving us the opportunity to apply the skill on simple tasks such as writing letter of application, online memo, and e-mail messages. From there, students are expected to perfect the strategy and technique for business, professional, and technical contexts for writing the final assignments: Application package, formal report, and Web Folio in form of Linked In profile and student’s blog. Other than improving writing skill, this course also teaches students how to develop a good networking strategy, that is crucial for the job application process.Aside from developing individual skill, students are expected to engage with their classmates through group work, where they have to participate in online discussion, peer review, and production and analysis of documents for professional purpose. At the end of the course, students are expected to have some improvement in their job application, technical writing skills, and self-editing skills.

As an international student, even after staying in Canada for 3 years, I am still struggling with my both of my oral and written communication skill. What I was hoping to gain from this course is to have a significant improvement in my communication skill so I have the appropriate strategy for networking, for both before and after in the workforce, as well as having the capability to  personalise a job application that can appeal myself as a potential employee.