Draft of Formal Letter

Heres my first draft of the Formal letter:

Currently > 300 words... am at 352...

Gotta look into reducing the word count...

Feedbacks are more than welcomed.

Dear Professor Blackstone,

I am writing to you to formally introduce myself. My name is Chng Joe Hui, and I am a 1st-year undergraduate in Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering (Land).

Previously, I was a student from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) and was part of the pioneering batch of Polytechnic Foundation Programme’s (PFP for short) engineering student. After PFP, I carried on further studying and had graduated with a diploma in Nanotechnology and Materials Sciences (specialising in Materials for Sustainable Technology) in 2017.

Originally, I chose to study materials sciences as I was curious by how the knowledge of materials sciences could be applied to enhance the world around us. After my 3 years learning the applications and how to’s, coupled with the news of lacking engineers in the rail industry albeit its continued growth, I have decided to pursue this degree in SIT.

Prior to this effective communication module, I had completed 2 communications modules in polytechnic, both attaining the letter grade of ‘A’. Although I am not sure if it was due to the lecturer being lenient, I believe that one of the possible reasons might be due to the good flow of my content.

One such example would be when there was a group presentation, I was charged with presenting the introduction and conclusion. While I introduce the content, I also briefly introduced the person presenting that particular part. After the presentation, I was praised for doing a splendid introduction.

On the other hand, I believe one of my greatest weakness is my tendency to speed through content when I am stressed/ nervous. I had never been much of a confident person, and as such becomes stressed easily when all eyes are staring intently on me. Even on Friday’s tutorial class, where we had to share content with our tutorial mates, I realised that I was speeding through and not articulating some of the points as well as I could have done.

In short, I hope to have better stress management and by extension stop the habit of rushing through content and thus articulate my ideas better. As such, I hope to develop these skills under your guidance.

Best Regards,

Chng Joe Hui

SIE2016 | Tutorial Group 6

P.S. Doing at this ungodly hour cause I had inspiration... (it's 3:10am, 08/09)