EG1471- Portfolio 4

Whenever I have to tackle the writing assignment for my engineering subject, I found it quite frustrated and difficult to express my ideas in academic style. Writing for engineering subject requires a lot of technical aspects. If you do not possess a certain amount of knowledge in a particular field or area, it will be difficult to get a head start for your essay because you simply do not know what to write about. Not only that, I always fail to organize and develop my ideas in an academically persuasive manner, which means to organize my assertions into logical and cohesive arguments that will convince the reader. Therefore, it is quite often that my papers end up lacking clear logical flow and unity, not to mention a persuasive linear argument.

Besides this, as it is an academic essay, we need to have reference and the article should be from reputable sources. Browsing through the websites just to find the related topics seems to be a “tiring” and yet rather difficult task to me as it consumes a lot of time.

However, the main difficulty that I have faced in writing for academic essay is the minimum word requirement for each essay and I found it difficult to fulfil it. Lack of understanding in expanding the sentences and do not generate enough ideas could be the reasons behind.

I try to resolve the problems that I have mentioned above by reading more books and newspaper. I memorise every good sentences from the reading materials and apply it when I write essay. I reckon that it is ineffective because I cannot memorize everything if I have to write an essay next time. Therefore, there are still a lot of rooms for improvement, where I need a specific and systematic guidance on how to scaffold my ideas so I can fulfil my writing task in a satisfactory manner. In other words, I believe that by attending EG1471 class plus continuous practice will eventually improve my writing skill.