<p>I understand using school resources, such as career fair, engineer club and career center would help anyone tremendously for a successful career and internships. However, like I said, due to my conditions of my bad writing skill with sub 3.0 cc GPA so that I feel like I need to do additional action than average engineer students out there. Secondly, there is an overwhelms number of students who applied for the few spots.</p>
<p>edited:I am trying to do is to prepare myself ahead and knowing what to do and expect. i guess for the time being, i need to improve my writing skill substantially.</p>
<p>Best way to become a better writer: read good books whenever. I read fantasy books all my childhood and it really gives you an intuition as to how sentences should sound and look. Although, these books did give me a horrible penchant for longer-than-average sentences…</p>
<p>Your CC GPA shouldn’t affect you too badly. What’s your GPA in your new school?</p>
<p>none so far because applied to transfer for Spring 2014. I used to read books for classes but it was more like read to finish rather than read to understand sentence structures.</p>
<p>The point isn’t to read specifically with sentence structure in mind. The point is to go read and just enjoy what you are reading. The act of reading will itself lead to a stronger grasp of the language.</p>
<p>OMG, even in the medical world I’ve been shocked at some of the cover letters I’ve read from physicians. An aweful cover letter went straight to the trash with no possible way the candidate could redeem the opportunity. </p>
<p>Reading a lot does help. I always believe that if you want to be great at a task, you need to correctly practice the task and as often as possible. Take several writing classes and crank out those assignments.</p>
<p>The best way to improve your english skills is to read the newspaper on a daily basis and then journal everyday. Read aloud what you’ve read. Copy English passages and quotes that you like; Walk around your community and talk to people. </p>
<p>If you can’t communicate well, you won’t get any job in any field; just a reality.</p>
<p>Funny! That was literally my plan except the part of newspaper; I would use online scholarly articles like Forbes, LA time, TNYT. I would practice aloud and save certain structures or phrases. Back in HS, no one told my written skill was bad because with all self-esteem movement going on in this country. I was blindly made believe that I was a decent writer compared to most native English speaker until in college, of course. I still have bad memories from English class especially on the first real essay where it looked like been through a slaughter house.</p>
<p>I would actually NOT advise reading the newspaper as a method of strengthening your English - while they are professionally written, the constraints of journalistic writing are unique and not widely applicable. Assuming you are opposed to reading philosophic treatises, I would just recommend some type of well-written novel.</p>
<p>But any reading, writing, and speaking is going to help at least a bit.</p>