• DocumentCode
    578697
  • Title

    “In case there is something fault in power supply…, Then unit will broken without this”

  • Author

    Wang, Jessie Yijia ; Ji, Noble Naibo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of English, Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    20-23 Aug. 2012
  • Abstract
    This study examines the email correspondences of a junior engineer who just graduated from the university in 2011. The findings shows that the language patterns in the emails are greatly related to the job duties of this engineer and are specifically related to the professional practice in the engineering environment. It is also argued that the methodology adopted in this study could be utilized by engineering students and graduates for monitoring their self-development and improving communication and language skills.
  • Keywords
    continuing professional development; educational institutions; engineering education; personnel; communication skill improvement; engineer duties; engineer jobs; engineer self-development; engineering professional practice; engineering students; global engineer language patterns; junior engineers; language skill improvement; power supply fault; universities; Companies; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Industries; Marketing and sales; Semantics; Wmatrix; communication; emails; engineer; specialised English;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2417-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2416-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TALE.2012.6360388
  • Filename
    6360388