Dear Kumar,

I have reviewed your application letter and would like to form a writing team with you for the ENGL 301 class. Our complementary skill sets and common goals to be perfect at writing ensure a mutually beneficial cooperation as a team.

I am interested in your multi-disciplinary academic background which results in a diverse writing experience in research-based topics. Even if you said your writings are limited to certain internship experience, I believe the skills are easily transferable to other field given enough background information.

As a computer science student, my writing experiences are largely technology-related where I created documentations to facilitate inter-departments’ understanding of software’s source code. How I resolve a big project is more or less affected by my way of coding a program. I tend to break things down into small tasks, and start on the part I feel most confident with while ignore the order or details for the time being. Things will get clear themselves once I figure out the structure of a domain. I hope the idea could help with your concerns when you are not sure where to begin an assignment.

Please refer to the attachment below for my application letter. If you also feel interested in working with me, feel free to contact at linda_cai2014@hotmail.com or through our group Facebook page.

Sincerely,

Xiaoying(Linda) Cai

301 Xiaoying Cai Application letter

To: Dr. Erika Paterson
From: Xiaoying (Linda) Cai
Date: January 23, 2017
Subject: Blog Posting of Application Letter for ENGL 301

I am writing to inform you that I have posted my application letter to our writing teams in my blog. You will be able to find a digital copy of it from the attachment below. A summary of my application is as follows:

• My academic interest and why I chose a computer science major
• My strengths and related past experiences in writing
• My weakness in writing and my learning philosophy to deal with it

Please feel free to let me know if you have questions or any additional information is required. Thank you for reviewing my application.

Sincerely,

Linda Cai

301 Xiaoying Cai Application letter

5607 Yalta Place, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1L7

January 21^st, 2017

English 301 Technical Writing Class
University of British Columbia
2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4

Dear English 301 classmates,

I am writing to express my interest to be part of your writing team. I am a third year student in the bachelor of computer science program. An internship experience during my first degree’s study inspired me to consider my interest and potentials in the computer science field. While most of my classmates went on to be lawyer or to seek a position in the government as that’s typical when you are from a law school, I followed my intuition here.

From my own experience as a second language learner, my strengths build up on the awareness of writing being the part that takes most efforts to get improved. To achieve my goals, I once participated in the weekly free writing class provided by the UBC’s continuing studies where I learned the idea of free writing. It’s a great way to warm up before one starts the formal writing tasks. I have also reached out to the writing center and had someone to review my works. During my last internship with the Genome Sciences Center, I was involved in the complete process of creating a web application, from writing the project and design plans to the documentation of technical specifications, in which I paid particular attention regarding how to effectively explain concepts to non-technical users. I can see my writing skills being improved through these activities.

But there is still a long way to go. A lack of more advanced vocabulary is one thing that may lead to being incapable of accurate description of certain scenarios. There also has been many a time that I understood every word in an expression but still didn’t know the meaning of it as a whole. In addition, discrepancy exists between recognition of some expressions and my ability to apply them properly in writing. Understanding my weakness is the first step to become a mature writer. The learning philosophy I have been pursuing is to start small but contributes persistently every day, and believe in the qualitative changes will eventually happen.

Thank you for taking the time to read my application. I can be reached at linda_cai2014@hotmail.com, or through the group Facebook page.

Sincerely,

Xiaoying (Linda) Cai

301 Xiaoying Cai Application letter

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