Yang Liu's Web Folio

To be honest, I am not good at English writing. When I graduated from high school and prepared for the IELTS test, I struggled in the Writing tests. English is not my first language. Learning a new language is hard, especially in writing. Writing concise sentences without misleading is usually my weakness. I was worried that my expression was not clear enough to let my audiences understand and therefore writing much as possible to deliver my ideas. I tried to balance the sentence conciseness and content clearness when I wrote…read more

The process of creating the Web folio provides me with an opportunity to overview my term work in ENGL 301. I am very proud that I successfully completed all the coursework, and my English writing improved through the term work. I learned in many ways, such as writing career-related documentations, communication in technical and business scenarios, and constructing formal research. Beginning with application letters, I learned to properly introduce myself as a candidate, emphasizing my personal skills and relative experiences. This process is similar to writing a cover letter to…read more

In the last week, we have been asked to submit the first draft of our formal report. I found that I learned a lot during researching, producing the formal proposal and peering review. In this report, I chose a topic that is related to career life for UBC CS students. The computer science program in UBC mainly focuses on academic concepts, and however, IT industries require students to have more coding skills. When I researched how to solve this conflict between our computer science education and industry needs, many universities’…read more

LinkedIn has become one of the major social media in seeking a job and other professional fields. When I researched best LinkedIn practices, I started to think about my own experience in social media. Like other social media, we can put anything about ourselves on LinkedIn, such as our hobbies, education, and previous jobs. Putting various information about us on LinkedIn helps others know us without seeing us in the real world. We connected based on the information we provided. However, some strategies may be helpful to delivering information that…read more

Last week, I wrote a technical definition for non-technical audiences. The term that I chose to define is machine learning. Machine learning is a significant and comprehensive topic in computer science. Even experts in computer science spend years studying and analyzing machine learning concepts. It is hard to define it precisely, but avoid getting too much detail to understand. Defining machine learning in a technical context is an invaluable lesson for me and improves my writing. I learned a lot in defining a term, peering review others’ work, and re-edit the…read more