Professional Correspondence
Lecture Activity 3
This was one of the activities we completed during an early ENG2003 lecture to apply the skills we reviewed in the flipped lecture content about writing and editing professional emails. It is a good example of how the information we have learned has very practical application, and will carry forward with us as students and into our lives as working professionals. I think it is an earmark of growth to be able to reflect on past work and identify things that have been improved on and modified with experience and practice. I have historically had a lot of anxiety with respect to writing emails, especially as they relate to correspondence with professors and employers. This exercise shows how much I have developed as a communicator in that respect, as I took a very poorly written email and essentially reformatted and rewrote it completely so that it was appropriate. In fact, it shows my entire thinking process and highlights what I found most important, which shows that I have learned the tools for effective communication. Luckily, by the time we were working on this kind of editing, I felt that it no longer pushed me out of my comfort zone, and became something I was more than comfortable doing. I was able to sit down and analyze the content objectively, pull out the important pieces of information, and present them in a more coherent and concise matter. I feel that this shows that I am becoming more confident in my own voice and comfortable asserting needs without undercutting myself. Email editing is as much a skill as it is an art, and there is always room for improvement, so although this is not my best work, I believe it is a good snapshot of my progress thus far as it continues to evolve with practice.