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Re: Please help me to review my covering letter!

ferpectedit — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:10:40 GMT

Hello:
The letter is too long to revise word-by-word here. You make a lot of small errors, most of which you can correct by going over an English grammar and usage book. To get you started I'll give you specific suggestions on the second paragraph.

I don't understand the first part. Are you addressing someone? If so, you should put that name in the salutation and nowhere else in the letter. Here's my revision. Forgive me if I have changed your meaning, but as I said I have trouble understanding the paragraph as you have written it.

I would like an internship through the âErasmus Placementâ program for three to six months at your company. I could start as early as February 2009. Attached is a copy of my Curriculum Vitae (then touch on specific experience on your C.V. that makes you the best candidate for this internship).

To "serve" an internship is not a common expression and has unpleasant connotations: prisoners "serve" time for their crimes. The "for this reason" is unnecessary but you should include some specific experience or education in this paragraph which make you the right candidate for the internship. Good luck!

Please I need help writing a cover letter and CV for an advertised job

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:57:27 GMT

JOB Research Assistant

Skills and Qualifications:
â¢   University degree (BSc. or MSc.) in biological sciences or infectious diseases plus 3 years of related research experience
â¢   Proven expertise in molecular biology and recombinant protein expression/purification methodologies mandatory
â¢   Experience in handling biosafety level 2 pathogens required and only individuals with biosafety training at *** will be considered
â¢   Established experience in the detection and analysis of protein-protein interactions
â¢   Experience with mouse models for the study of infectious pathogens a plus
â¢   Effective oral and written communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
â¢   Computer and excellent record-keeping skills required
â¢   Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
â¢   Accuracy and attention to detail
â¢   Ability to prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines

I achieved an MSc in Molecular Biology in September *** with emphasis on molecular diagnosis and therapeutics. I also took recombinant DNA and Bioinformatics courses which introduced me to gene expression and structure function relationships of proteins. I developed interest in genes expressed under drug pressure as well as conserved epitopes in infectious pathogens enabling to be more knowledgeable in bioinformatics programs. However, Molecular microbiology is my preferred branched because it includes main disease control aspects of most pathogens of public health treat and I enjoy critical and analytical work.

As a research techniques and laboratory analyst as indicated in my resume, I used PCR, Dot blotting, ELISA and SDS-PAGE to identify variations in molecular markers in Plasmodium falciparum , to identify point mutations in genes responsible for sensitive of the parasite to given drugs, to identify, qualify and quantify antibodies to specific antigens and to separate and identify proteins present in a sample. Within these periods I safely collected and analysed samples from patients with infectious diseases. I have definitely benefited from these experiences and I feel much more knowledgeable in biosafety practices.

I use optimised reagents and protocols as well as control measures and obtained optimum results for my reactions while observing all laboratory safety procedures. My ability to follow and up date protocols have enabled me to be disciplined and organised. I have carried out analysis with a range of molecular techniques and I feel confident that I can use other techniques with similar principles such as ELISPOT and Immunohistochemistry detection.

I used PowerPoint, MS word, Excel and other soft ware programs in seminars, debates and course works to make graphs, diagrams, calculations and pictures to discuss, explain and indicate the basis and significance of my work, how it is similar and or different from similar works of other investigators.

I plan, arranged and work around my project meeting tight datelines while comparing my ideas with those of my colleagues and laboratory mates and eager to help whenever possible. I report all observations as it is generated in real time in my laboratory notebook and my progress to my supervisors. This will enable the continuation of similar studies based on my findings as well as the continuation of my work by another person.

I am keenly interested in specialising in disease control research mainly on the patterns of gene expression during various conditions and the structure function changes of the proteins produced by the cell type during these conditions.

The *** website has given me a proper insight into the expertise, techniques, focus, approach and the pathogens of ***. It is my pleasure to learn more about gene expression and its associated proteins as a molecular basis of disease control amongst a variety of top quality experts. This will enable me to develop myself better both professionally and personally. I therefore, feel confident that the Research Assistant is the right choice for me and I would appreciate the opportunity to work at the Division of Infectious Diseases-*** .

MY CV is as below

Name

address.

Nationality: ***.

E-mail: ***

Key Skills

Master of Science-Medical Molecular Biology

Sound scientific background with academic and practical knowledge in: molecular biology, malaria genetics and recombinant DNA technology. Ability to initiate diverse research projects and achieve significant results. Ability to motivate multi-disciplinary teams and work on own initiative. Competent in Microsoft Series, Primer design and Bioinformatics software programs. Solid analytical skills with the ability to assimilate information quickly/accurately; Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills- at all levels. Adapt well to challenges and resilient. Fluent in English.

Position of Responsibility

1996-1997

Financial Secretary,***.

Registering students, receiving and recording finances
Assisting Zoology students with departmental enquires and propositions

Career History

Named and add.

2007 â Present

Laboratory Manager

Disease diagnosis, personnel training and laboratory management

***

2007-Present ( Part-time)

Teaching Assistant

Responsible for facilitating student studies on Molecular Biology and Immunogenetics, through course work and tutorials.

***

2003-2004

Laboratory Manager

Disease diagnosis, personnel training and laboratory management

***

2001-2003

Research Technician

Investigated polymorphism in merozoite surface genes of Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) as well as itâs resistance to pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (P/S) drug:

Collecting Plasmodium faciparum blood samples from endemic regions
Collecting patient information using observation and questionnaire
Planning and arranging experiments to provide specific research data
Analysing samples
Analysing and reporting findings
Taking students through experimental procedures
Laboratory housekeeping

Research Techniques: Microscopy, DNA Extraction, PCR, GEL Electrophoresis, Dot Blotting, GLP

***

1999-1999

Facilitator

Researched the livelihood, activities and needs of people living in rural communities

Taking subjects through prevention and control of Public Health diseases
Collecting information on activities of rural communities in ***
Preparing preliminary report on findings

Education and Training

school

Course

Research Project:

Researched amino acid variations to the circumsporozoite protein gene (csp) incorporated into the RTS, S/AS02 vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a study population

Designing, planning and arranging research project for specific research data
Collecting and collating results
Analysing resulting data by computer
Writing detailed report on findings
Presenting results

Research Techniques: PCR, Gel Electrophoresis, Gene Purification, DNA Sequencing, GLP

1992-1997 University of ***

BSc Zoology 7GPA)

-Insight into Genetics and Developmental Genetics

Researched proteins of the foot muscles of fresh water snails Bulinus globosus and Biomphilaria pfeifferi which aids in the transmission of schistosomiasis

Research Techniques: Mortar &Pestle and SDS_PAGE, GLP

1987-1992 Big ***

7 GCSE: English (B), Mathematics (B), French (C), Chemistry (A), Biology (B), Human Biology (B), Physics (B)

Computer Skills

Primer 3
Microsoft Office, Word and Excel
PowerPoint
Bioinformatics and Sequencing programs

ACHIEVEMENTS
I identified a faster and easier technique to determine genetic diversity in a Plasmodium falciparum study population. I also initiated Zoology Departmental Orientation for new students in the University of ***.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Having achieved a high standard of education, coupled with practical work experience in a range of environments, I have accumulated diverse skills and knowledge specifically in research. I have the ability to plan, organise and monitor my own performance, relishing every opportunity to develop both personally and professionally. I adapt to ever changing environments with initiative and decisiveness, with a flexible attitude towards my work. I now wish to further utilise my abilities working with an Institution who values and recognises core competencies and can provide challenges to develop both professionally and personally.

How to tell you help students to study in CV

JosieITA — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:10:25 GMT

Hello,
I'm trying to write my first English curriculum vitae and I have a problem.
In my "experiences" I would like to tell that I'm a university student who helps younger students (high school) in the afternoon, teaching them what they don't understand at school and helping them with homework.

In Italy this is called "fare ripetizioni", but I don't think that in English "make/do repetitions" means something like that!
So is there an idiom expression or something to say what my "job" is?

Thanks!

Re: comprehension: Rene

Hela — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:34:24 GMT

Dear teachers,

I have done the work again and answered the comprehension questions. Would you please have a look at it and give me your corrections?

QUESTIONS:

1) How does Rene describe the old lady?

âa crusty old stickâ + âThis is going to be a bit of an effort, and I plucked up courage and started chatting to herâ

She is a tough, irritable old lady. (any more comments ?)

2) What was the old ladyâs reaction to the way Rene was conducting their conversation? Explain.

Suddenly she thought that Rene was nosy, indescrete. By telling Rene if she wanted her curriculum vitae she implied that asking many personal questions wasnât the thing to do.

3) How did the incident affect Rene and what did she learn from it?

Rene seemed to be slightly hurt âI thought that was so rude after making that effortâ and rather surprised by her attitude so she started listening to other peopleâs conversations. Then she noticed that no one was talking about personal and intimate things. She learned that British people think it rude, unseemly to ask that kind of questions. It is a sign of bad manners. So if people wanted to know more of their interlocutors they needed to be more diplomatic and not so direct perhaps.

4) What does she mean by âa British thingâ?

According to Rene, this attitude is paculiar to British people who are introvert and inhibited. They don't feel that comfortable giving out too much personal information. They feel that it's none of other people's business in many situations.

They never reveal themselves in their true colours because by doing so they may jeopardize themselves, become an easy target for criticism, which is a sign of weakness (?) âthere is some sense of losing face by showing too much of yourselfâ.

5) Is it also âan American thingâ? Explain.

This is not the case of Americans they are more extrovert, outright, spontaneous, and like talking about themselves.

6) In her reflection over social communication, why is she contrasting âtalk withâ and / with (?) other similar verb constructions?

She contrasts âtalk withâ with âtalk pastâ and âtalk throughâ to show that people do not really communicate: exchange ideas, expreriences, feelings and emotions. They only have a superficial contact with others, they do not touch their heart, do not learn anything from them and miss a lot by doing so.

7) What is the point she tries to make about âthe use of timeâ and how does it relate to human behaviour in society?

She says that she tries to take advantage of the present moment whereas people tend to look at the past or the future and do not give much importance to the moment they are living. They do not appreciate the company of the people they are with at the present and so miss very important things and can be left with regrets.

8) What main advantage do songs have over other art forms?

Music makes you feel emotions that otherwise you might not feel only with prose, poetry or drama. It touches the heart of people more instantly than any other form of art.

She prefers writing songs because she finds interesting the fact of being obliged to fit her own thoughts to a piece of music and being restricted by its rhythm. It demands a lot of discipline from the writer.

9) What five-word expression does Rene use to refer to the rules that everyone should know and obey in society? = âunwritten laws of social etiquetteâ.

10) Find words or expressions which mean:

a) avoid: You skirt the issue

b) to feel ashamed: Weâre all guilty of it (?) / losing face (?)

c) thoroughly: to the full

Thank you for being so understanding.

Hela

comprehension: Rene

Hela — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:42:03 GMT

Dear teachers,

Would you please correct my answers? But before that Iâd like to ask you if I understood the meaning of the underlined expressions or ideas. Furthermore, Iâd like to ask British teachers if they confirm what she says about the âBritish thingâ and give me more elements about this British attitude. And what about Americans, is it true that they are more extrovert? Thank very much for your help.

TEXT: An interview with Rene Wyndham (How is "Wyndham" pronounced, please?)

Interviewer: So how did you come to write that song, Rene?

Rene: Well I wrote it a few years ago after Iâd been at a rather formal dinner party, sitting next to (1) a crusty old stick, a lady I knew, and I thought âThis is going to be a bit of an effortâ, and I plucked up courage and started chatting to her about herself and she said sheâd been in Egypt and various things. And I was following the line of the conversation and all of a sudden she stopped dead and looked at me and said: âIf youâd really like to know more about me I shall write out my curriculum vitae for you!â And I thought that was so rude after making that effort that I (2) looked around and thought âWell what are other people talking about?â And I realized that other people donât ask direct questions, itâs one of the things, unwritten laws of social etiquette. You skirt the issue if youâre trying to find out things, or you (3) make polite niceties and nice noises at dinner parties but you donât often say what your emotions are doing underneath.

Interviewer: Can I come back to something you said? You said something about people not asking direct questions. Why do you think that is?

Rene: I think itâs partly fear, that they feel that they themselves will be exposed if theyâre asked those questions, and there is some sense of losing face by showing too much of yourself. I think it might be a particularly (4) British thing because I was for instance in the USA with people Iâd never met before, went to a very large dinner party, and within seconds people were telling me what their psychiatrist had said about them and their problems with the grocer and so on. Things that nobody in England would (5) open out and do because there is fear, there is a protective barrier and a sense of inferiority for anybody who dares to disobey these social norms.

Interviewer: Rene, when we talked about this song I think once before, you mentioned something about the way people donât listen to one another, and that was one of the reasons that you had written the song, you were very concerned about this.

Rene: Certainly a lot of my songs are concerned with communication. I was initially very inspired by the works of Wesker and Pinter and Albee and the way they show the people talking past each other, through each other, but never with each other, and this is something that in different ways I try to show in a lot of my songs. I even try and find the gulf between the Third World, the developing world, and our own world, because some of (6) the things people talk about there miss each other by miles. And (7) we do this in our own... unless youâre really close to people and you have a total trust, very often you say things as much to defend yourself as to listen to them. Youâre so concerned with the kind of impression you ought to be making that you fail to be listening to whatâs coming back to you from them. (8) Weâre all guilty of it.

Interviewer: Right, especially in that situation.

Rene: Very much so, and the more you know somebody, the more you relax and probably allow yourself to listen properly to them. That does demand a lot more energy of living that they simply havenât got time to make space for another personâs being within them.

Interviewer: You mentioned your other songs just now. What sort of other things do you write about in you other songs? What themes?

Rene: Well one of the other themes Iâm very concerned about is the use of time. I wrote one for instance about the fact that you give people flowers long after theyâre gone, and when people are leaving a firm that theyâve been working for, you give them a drink and say: âWhat a jolly good fellowâ and so on. But at the time they were there perhaps youâd never noticed them, never took the time again to listen to them properly. (9) We always seem to be missing the mark as far as time goes. I hate the thought of time rushing past. I really want to live every single minute to the full. Some of the songs are expressing that. The fact that you never have anything but this second that youâre living in, that when youâre looking to the future or the past, that doesnât really exist at all. And yet a lot of us find it the hardest thing of all, to coincide with the second that weâre living in.

Interviewer: And well, perhaps a final question. Why do you write songs at all? Why songs? Why not poetry or novels or something else?

Rene: Itâs something to do with a sense of rhythm. Thereâs a terrifically enjoyable discipline about fitting into a nutshell your own thoughts. In a poem youâve got more freedom, youâre not restricted by the music. But music itself is a wonderful art from and it conveys emotion more directly than anything, to me anyway. More directly than painting. More directly than theatre or whatever. If I hear a piece of music, thatâs it, instantly, in the heart. Thereâs even music therapy and so on, which shows that it can do this. If one can convey by oneâs own creativity a mood in another person through the music, and then enhance it with a discipline of well-chosen words, then I think youâve got a perfect portrait of an instant communication.

VOCABULARY:

1) an unpleasant irritable lady?

2) left the old lady and listened to other peopleâs conversations?

5) show their inner feelings?

6) Does she want to say that British people wouldnât understand the way people in the third world communicate with each other because they always talk about intimate problems even with strangers and donât feel guilty about it?

7) British people will do the same only with close friends or relatives?

(8) = weâre ashamed of it?

QUESTIONS:

1) How does Rene describe the old lady? As an unpleasant irritable lady?

2) What was the old ladyâs reaction to the way Rene was conducting their conversation? Explain.

Suddenly she thought that Rene was nosy, indescrete? By telling her if she wanted her curriculum vitae showed that it wasnât the thing to do.

3) How did the incident affect Rene and what did she learn from it?

Rene stopped talking to the old Lady and left her to hear other peopleâs conversations and noticed that no one was talking about personal and intimate things. She learned that for British people it is rude, unseemly to ask personal questions. It is a sign of bad manners. So if people wanted to know more of their interlocutors they needed to be more diplomatic and not so direct perhaps.

4) What does she mean by âa British thingâ?

This attitude is paculiar to British people who are introvert and inhibited. They never reveal themselves in their true colours because by doing so they may jeopardize themselves, become an easy target for criticism, which is a sign of weakness.

5) Is it also âan American thingâ? Explain.

This is not the case of Americans they are more extrovert, outright, spontaneous, and like talking about themselves.

6) In her reflection over social communication, why is she contrasting âtalk withâ and (/ with ?) other similar verb constructions?

7) What is the point she tries to make about âthe use of timeâ and how does it relate to human behaviour in society?

8) What main advantage do songs have over other art forms?

Music makes you feel emotions that otherwise you might not feel only with prose, poetry or drama. It touches the heart of people more instantly than any other form of art.

Thank you very much in advance,

Hela

Meaning of some words

Mojca — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:09:54 GMT

Hello,

i would appreciate if anyone could help me with some words i need to understand to write a CV correctly.

What is thought by general grammar school? Is that equal to general secondary school, like gymnasium called in Europe?

Is there any difference between touch and blind typing? What is more common to use?

I have hurt some poeple saying that an expression secretary is a bit old-fashioned ? Are there any synonymes (like desk officer?) for a secretary? Can we say ËI did secretarial or administrative workË?

Thank you!

Mojca

Thanks and Regards or Thanks and Best Regards

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:01:28 GMT

Please let me know if in the end of one's mail one can use these expressions

1. Thanks and Regards,

ABC.

2. Thanks and Best Regards,

ABC

I think:

Writing "Best Regards" is alike greeting. It is not amalgamated with "Thanks". Everyday I rcv. a few e-mails from client side; g'nally frm US or S'pore. What I've observed is that either they write "Best Regards" or they write "Thanks". Have rarely seen where both of them are mentioned. Therefore, I'm telling u this frm logical as well empirical view.

Please enlighten me.

Regards,

Saurabh

A degree

donbartolo — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:38:55 GMT

Hallo!

I have found this nice forum by chance and have read its useful information as a guest. But now I have a question, and this is the reason why you have a new member today!

I have to send my CV to the States, but I do not know how to translate the vote of my degree (110/100 con lode, in Italian) in a correct English. I do not want to be too ... high-sounding or (worse) ridicolous by using a wrong expression.
Thank you so much for your help.
Yours,

donbartolo

P.S.: The above is my very own English style, most of which comes from my readings and experience. I do not have many references about its correctness, and would very much appreciate your opinion. Do not mind to be severe! Thanks again.