| Title: | A workshop on English writing: Writing for clarity and grace |
| Date: |
September 16, 2008 (Tuesday)
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| Time: |
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 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. For example, compare the following two sentences:
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? There are actually some guiding principles that help you write in one of the styles but not the other. Please come to the workshop and I will show you what these principles are.
Please bring some pens and highlighters to the workshop. This workshop will be conducted in English and Putonghua.
(Note that this is a re-run of the same workshop that I did in previous years. New students are especially encouraged to come.)
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