| Title: | A workshop on English writing: Writing for clarity and grace |
| Date: |
December 17, 2007 (Monday)
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| Time: |
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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| Venue: |
Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. |
| Speaker: |
Dr. Yui-Wah (Clement) Lee
Bell Labs New Jersey USA |
This is a hands-on workshop on English writing. I will show you some concrete examples of how different writing styles can have very different effects on your readers. Some completely confuse your readers while the others let you express your ideas clearly and gracefully. For example, compare the following two paragraphs:
A) Better evaluation of responses to treatment modalities depends on the standardization of an index allowing accurate descriptions of learning disorder behaviors.
B) We could better evaluate how those with learning disorders respond to treatment if we could standardize an index that accurately describes how they behave.
Which one do you like better? Why? And how to write like that? Please come to the workshop and I will show you.
Please bring some pen and highlighters to the workshop.
(Note that this is a re-run of the same workshops that I did in August this year and in October 2000, although the title has changed.)
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Yui-Wah (Clement) Lee received his PhD degree in computer science and engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is now a member of technical staff in Bell Labs, located in New Jersey, USA. In the academic year of 2006/2007, he took a year of leave of absence from Bell Labs to teach in CUHK. His technical interests include systems design and implementation, wireless and mobile computing, and information technology in education.
Enquiries: Miss Temmy So at tel 2609 8444
For more information, please refer to http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/seminar