Writings in engineering subjects require mature organization skill before one can execute it. This is because most of the subjects in this field are either in the form of a “chronological” manner or a “cause and effect” style. Even though with all of the knowledge I have in a certain matter, I find it hard to organize them in an appropriate way to project my ideas smoothly. Hence, at times I find that my essays are quite messy and easily misinterpreted by others. This is due to my weaknesses in organization skills and my conjunction usage. In addition, I tend to use long sentences to explain my thoughts, in other words, I often commit to use run-off sentences.
In order to resolve this issue, firstly I think I will have to understand the question fully and analyze them in order to prevent from misinterpretation. After highlighting all the required information and keywords, I will have to come out with a clear outline. This will certainly come in handy as I will not miss any important facts and able to organize them in a more clear and systematic manner. This method will confine me into the scope of discussion, preventing me from providing irrelevant information. Hence, it will improve my flow of ideas in the essay, avoiding confusion or misunderstandings.
In order to enhance the flow of my essay, I think I should improve my usage of conjunctions and transition signals. By misusing either one of the both would change the meaning of an idea or make the flow of the idea to jerk. The only way is to do more practices to improve myself. Writing a scientific essay does not require flowery language, but it still requires skills. In order avoid long sentence, I have to simplify my sentence structure. One of the skills of writing an engineering essay is to avoid heavy sentences. Simple sentences are sufficient to project a certain idea.
2 comments:
There is quite a lot of thinking in this article, some of which is also the problem of mine. I find that you have give both the problems and solutions, which is quite good. the idea flow is smooth and the transitional word is well used in it. However you need to pay attendion to some little careless mistakes in your article.
You had highlighted what are the mistakes that you usually commit and organize in a good manner. However, there are some careless mistakes. Besides that, i think "This is due to my weaknesses in organization skills and my conjunction usage" does not sound parallel.
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