Self-Assessment Essay for ENGLISH 21007
As a non-English speaker who lived in New York, English has always been a course I must study seriously. As a future civil engineer, writing for engineering is, of course, the most important to me in all English classes. At the beginning of choosing this course, I set my own learning goals for myself. Firstly, I want to learn to get useful information from other people’s academic articles quickly. Secondly, I hope that I can write technical articles in a standard format. However, my English professor’s course not only allowed me to achieve my goals but also gave me more.
The first assignment is a Technical Description. I was asked to write a process description or mechanism description. During the assignment, I was the first-time learning transfer my own knowledge to a technical description. There is always a difference between what you know, what you want to convey, and what the readers receive. An excellent technical description should allow most readers to accurately understand the author’s intentions. This requires that the words and sentences of the article must conform to the reader’s language habits or established standards. At the same time, I also need to learn to elaborate my point of view from various angles. In my technical description, I learned to use charts, metaphors, and examples to express my thoughts. Through this assignment, I did learn how to write a standard technical article and learned how to make my technical article more advanced.
The second assignment is Lab Report Analysis. I was asked to compare the basic elements of two lab report. The lab report is one of the most important article types of engineering writing. To analyze the pros and cons of two lab reports, I must master the key elements of a lab report. Through the analysis and evaluation of the two lad reports, I clearly saw a lot of mistakes we often made, and I saw what a good lab report would look like. What’s important is that this assignment taught me to “analyze.” I have studied a variety of different comparative analysis methods. Through the constant conversion of my role, I have a good grasp of the key to lad report.
The final assignment is the Research Project Final Report. It is a team project. This is beyond my expectation. I did not imagine that writing can also be teamwork. After all, everyone has their own language habits and special opinions. What a strange work would be an article that was stitched together by different authors’ paragraphs? With such questions, I started our project with my unfamiliar teammates. Together we identify topics, find information, and assign tasks. Through time and time communication, we understand each other. At the same time, my project has progressed smoothly. Everything I worried about at the beginning did not happen. I learned how to trust your teammates and how to work with your teammates. Of course, how to search for resources and how to cite these resources is also an important gain.
Review the entire semester, I found I completed many jobs. How did I accomplish so many things? That is to complete each small job step by step. No accumulation of steps, no miles.
