Task 4: Difficulties which I have in Writing in My Engineering Classes

In terms of writing, among all the current modules, which I am taking, I find the module CM1502 to be the most difficult as I need to produce a lab report for every experiment done. Every lab report requires five sections: introduction, procedures, calculations of data, discussion and conclusion. I have difficulties in writing all sections except for the section on calculation. The introduction and procedures in the lab report are normally a summary of the information given in the lab manual. Usually, I have difficulty in capturing all the main points in the first reading; thus, I will read the lab manual a few times before writing. This is actually quite time consuming as my reading speed is slow. In order to shorten the length of time in future, I will try to increase my reading speed by reading more English materials. In addition, the other difficulty, which I faced on writing introduction and procedures, is the restructuring of the sentence structure on paraphrasing. Normally, I tend to write clumsy long sentence and sometimes it is hard to understand my work. Thus after writing, I will go through my work again to revise the sentence so as to ensure that a clearer message is being delivered to the reader. I think to further solve this problem, I will have to do more reading. As for discussion and conclusion, I have difficulty in having a good paragraphing if I start writing directly. As to ensure a better paragraphing, habitually, I will first list down all the points, which I am going to write, on a piece of rough paper and have a careful arrangement before I start writing. It is like doing the mind mapping and outlining. In short, the difficulties that I have on writing lab report are capturing of main points on doing summary, writing of good sentence structure and having good paragraphing. In solving these difficulties, normally, I will read the material several times before summarizing, revise my sentences and practice mind mapping and outlining. I will do more reading in future as to further improve my writing.