WRITING DIFFICULTIES IN ENGINEERING CLASSES
When I first applied to Computer Engineering, I did not think that it would require me to write a lot. Therefore, I have a lot of difficulties in writing in my engineering classes. And in my opinion, the class which causes me many troubles in writing is MLE1101.
There are some reasons that MLE1101 is difficult for me. The first one is my English is not good enough. When I was in my country, I though my English is quite good. Only when I came here did I realize that it is not good enough to deal with the academic writing. The second reason is that the MLE1101 modules is fairly hard. Not only does it contain many technical words and phrases but it also require us to have the general knowledge from many subject such as Maths, Physics, Chemistry, etc. (The image is the example of the MLE1101 page from the textbook - to show how difficult it is).
In order to deal with this problem, I have some tips. Firstly, I try to improve my English by practising a lot. Secondly, for those technical terms, I take note them and try to use them when discussing with my classmates so I can memorize those term. Thirdly, I read the text book and try to write out all the definitions and explanations that I find necessary. And I think those tips work for me.
However, MLE1101 is still very difficult for me. One of the tips that I want to apply is to form a study group so that I have more chances to discuss the problem with my friends
When I first applied to Computer Engineering, I did not think that it would require me to write a lot. Therefore, I have a lot of difficulties in writing in my engineering classes. And in my opinion, the class which causes me many troubles in writing is MLE1101.
There are some reasons that MLE1101 is difficult for me. The first one is my English is not good enough. When I was in my country, I though my English is quite good. Only when I came here did I realize that it is not good enough to deal with the academic writing. The second reason is that the MLE1101 modules is fairly hard. Not only does it contain many technical words and phrases but it also require us to have the general knowledge from many subject such as Maths, Physics, Chemistry, etc. (The image is the example of the MLE1101 page from the textbook - to show how difficult it is).
In order to deal with this problem, I have some tips. Firstly, I try to improve my English by practising a lot. Secondly, for those technical terms, I take note them and try to use them when discussing with my classmates so I can memorize those term. Thirdly, I read the text book and try to write out all the definitions and explanations that I find necessary. And I think those tips work for me.
However, MLE1101 is still very difficult for me. One of the tips that I want to apply is to form a study group so that I have more chances to discuss the problem with my friends
4 comments:
writing in engineering class is not an easy task and it require you to have a strong background about what you write and be expert in using words and sentence structures. In addition , you have also to think critically or seriously about your writing scenario, such as how much your readers can understand the writing or how they will feel about it. Generally, it require writer to spend a lot of time and efforts to finish successfully done or perfect writing.
I think most of international students that are from non-English speaking countries share the same problem. Many of us did not think that writing skills would be very important during our study in NUS, and perhaps in future career. We really have to improve a lot in order to meet the standard.
I think chemistry is the one of the most difficult subjects for cross-language students to learn well, because there are too many new and strange nouns for us to remember. In addition, the final exam for MLE1101 is a subjective question based exam. We must explain discuss or describe the properties or applications for some specific materials. It is indeed a difficult task for me. So we must work hard both in English and the subject itself.
although i do not take the module MLE1101, i also have the problem of writting in academic essay in my engineering classes.your tips is aslo helpful to me.
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