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
Link To Document