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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results for 'tag:Promotions tag:Universities' matching tags 'Promotions' and 'Universities'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aPromotions+tag%3aUniversities&amp;tag=Promotions,Universities&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results for 'tag:Promotions tag:Universities' matching tags 'Promotions' and 'Universities'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3170.31378)</generator><item><title>Help with writing a letter to GP's</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WritingLetter/gkcxc/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:45:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:551074</guid><dc:creator>annab</dc:creator><description>Hi,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Could I please ask you to review my letter and indicate what needs to be changed in order for this to come across as a letter from a professional.&amp;nbsp; I am professional and qualified in what I do, I am just not so good with words.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I am an alternative health practitioner (Ayurveda) and I want to write to all the GP&amp;#39;s where I live to introduce myself and let them know what I am doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanking you in advance&lt;br /&gt;AnnaB&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Dear Dr&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;I am writing to introduce my self to you, (my name).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I am an Ayurvedic practitioner and have a clinic at ??? medical centre where I see patients for health promotion and wellness, and for improved health.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I qualified in 2005 after taking a 3 year degree in Ayurveda at ?? University.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I then spent time in India gaining practical experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;As I am now seeing more and more clients, and some maybe patients of yours, I thought I should advise you of what I am doing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ayurveda is the world&amp;#39;s oldest scientific system of natural medicine, having its heritage in ancient India. It is formally recognized by the World Health Organisation and is known to be a complete health care system, which emphasizes prevention of disease, as well as promotion of health and longevity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ayurveda holds that the primary force in the causation of disease is imbalance resulting from disruption of homeostasis or immunity. Ayurveda does not separate mind from body and places equal importance on mental, emotional, and behavioural factors, which are seen as critical in the development of imbalances, hence disease.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ayurveda tells us that every creation inclusive of a human being is a model of the universe. In this model, the basic matter and the dynamic forces (Dosha) of the nature determine health and disease, and also determine the medicinal value of any substance (plant and mineral). The Ayurvedic practices, chiefly that of diet, life style, herbal preparation, massage, and meditation, aim to maintain the Dosha equilibrium.&amp;nbsp; &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Therapy is customised to the individual&amp;#39;s constitution (Prakruti). Numerous Ayurvedic medicines (plants in particular) have been tested for their biological and clinical potential using modern validation, and thereby setting an interface with modern medicine. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;There have been much research on the viability of Ayurvedic herbs to the cure of diseases like AIDS, Cancer, Tuberculosis etc., these experiments have met with great success. However, my current experience would allow me to refer more seriously ill patients to their GP and/or a more qualified Ayurvedic doctor. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Should you wish to know more about me or Ayurveda I would be delighted to hear from you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Yours faithfully&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: -Americans...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Americans/gcbqg/post.htm#511519</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 06:44:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:511519</guid><dc:creator>NL888</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Thank you all for posting.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The entire context is here:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does Breastfeeding Boost IQ?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Study Shows Breastfed Kids Score Better on Some IQ Tests&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;May 5, 2008 -- Breastfeeding may make your kid more intelligent, according to the latest study on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Exclusive, long-term breastfeeding improves a child&amp;#39;s verbal intelligence and other intelligence measures, says researcher Michael S. Kramer, MD, professor of pediatrics, epidemiology and biostatistics at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The study was published in the May edition of Archives of General Psychiatry.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Children who were breastfed longer scored higher on average at age 6 1/2 years in verbal intelligence, nonverbal intelligence, and overall intelligence, Kramer finds. Teachers rated them higher in reading and writing than children who weren&amp;#39;t breastfed as long or as exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding makes kids smarter,&amp;quot; Kramer tells WebMD. &amp;quot;I would say as a target for mothers, if they could exclusively breastfeed for three months and continue to breastfeed for some degree for one year, that would be good.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Breastfeeding exclusively [with no formula supplements] for six months would be even better, Kramer says. But he concedes that is difficult for many women, especially if they return to work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Breastfeeding and IQ: Studying the Data&lt;br /&gt;A host of studies have looked at breastfeeding and IQ. &amp;quot;Most of the studies have found an association between breastfeeding and higher IQ,&amp;quot; Kramer tells WebMD. But most have been what scientists call observational studies, with children whose mothers chose to breastfeed compared with those children whose mothers chose not to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kramer and others say these studies may be affected by differences in the way moms who breastfeed interact with their children and those who don&amp;#39;t.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kramer and his colleagues looked at almost 14,000 children in Belarus who visited 31 hospitals and clinics there. The participants are part of the large-scale study known as the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT). The researchers assigned half to an intervention that encouraged them to breastfeed exclusively long term or to another group that got the usual maternity care and child care.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This approach is considered more feasible and ethical than assigning mothers to breastfeed or bottle-feed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Those who got the breastfeeding intervention breastfed longer and more exclusively,&amp;quot; Kramer says. The number of mothers still breastfeeding exclusively at three months was seven times higher in the intervention group of mothers -- 43% compared to 6% of those who didn&amp;#39;t get the intervention.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://children.webmd.com/news/20080505/does-breastfeeding-boost-iq"&gt;http://children.webmd.com/news/20080505/does-breastfeeding-boost-iq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Justice awaits another quiet burial</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/JusticeAwaitsAnotherQuietBurial/zpgml/post.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:08:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:493249</guid><dc:creator>Jackson6612</dc:creator><description>The maze (=a complicated and confusing arrangement of streets, roads etc) to justice&lt;br /&gt;Another case is set to be lost as a âtragedyâ (=a very sad event). But the real misfortune (=very bad luck, or something that happens to you as a result of bad luck) is simply playing itself out yet again&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;(=one more time after many others); a victim of rape may be well on her way to becoming a âdisgracedâ (=to make people stop respecting you or your family, team, etc. by doing something very bad) statistic. Investigations are also unlikely to run their course (=if something runs its course, it continues in the way you expect until it has finished), as merely two days after it was reported, the crime stands eclipsed (=to become more important, powerful, famous etc than someone or something else, so that they are no longer noticed, overshadow) by motives of self promotion and politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;span&gt;A newly wed, 18-year old woman from&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Lodhran in Punjab was raped at the mausoleum (=a large stone building made specially to contain the body of a dead person, or the dead bodies of an important family) of Pakistanâs founder. She went missing on March 15 while on a sightseeing (=when you visit famous or interesting places, especially as tourists) visit to the tomb accompanied by her husband and some 20 relatives. The family had arrived in the metropolis after a visit to Lal Shahbaz Qalandarâs shrine in Sindh and on its return from Abdullah Shah Ghazi (=is considered a patron saint of Karachi and his tomb is located in Karachi), decided to make a stopover (=a short stay somewhere between parts of a journey) at the Quaidâs mausoleum. and has alleged that she was gang-raped by five employees of the mausoleum. The young woman, abducted at gunpoint (=while threatening someone or being threatened with a gun) by two men while she was waiting for her relatives at the gate of the mausoleum, claims that her kidnappers, who were later joined by others, raped her for 36 hours. She was recovered two days later by personnel (=the people who work in a company, organization, or military force) on guard duty at the mausoleummausoleum. The Superintendent of Police, Niaz Khoso, agrees that the rape took place in a storage room in the museum. The police say that they recovered pieces of stained clothing and hair from the site of the crime. Meanwhile, doctors who conducted her medical examination say that she was under the influence of what they suspect were opiates&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;(=a drug that contains opium. Opiates can be used to reduce severe pain and help people to sleep).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Tuesday, the victim is said to have identified the accused at the office of the resident engineer in charge of workers at the mausoleum. However, the entire picture has now taken an ugly turn as the case seems caught amid a crossfire between the police, WAR (=&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;War Against Rape)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, PPP&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt; representatives and her own family. On one end, her husband has accused the police of shielding her violator, a claim supported by the fact that the accused was initially released as he is said to enjoy the blessings of a minister. But the accused was later arrested and remanded (=to send someone back from a court of law, to wait for their trial) into police custody by a judicial magistrate (=someone, not usually a lawyer, who works as a judge in a local court of law, dealing with less serious crimes).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPPâs Shehla Raza opened another front (=the area where fighting happens in a war) by jumping into the fray (=an argument or fight)&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;with accusations against WAR of having abducted the victim for personal glory. WAR, on the other hand, asserts that it was attacked âby many members of a religious alliance who surrounded the vehicle and physically assaulted lawyers and a social workerâ. Police now claim that the victim has gone to stay with some relatives in the outskirts (=the parts of a town or city that are furthest from the centre) of the city until medico-legal reports are made available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Ironically, the crescendo (=People sometimes describe an increase in the intensity of something, or its most intense point, as a crescendo)moth-eaten (=old and in bad condition) system, faces of what is an unsavoury (=unpleasant or morally unacceptable) war for publicity, has drowned the voices of the wounded and this case has begun to&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;reek&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;(=to seem very clearly to have a particular quality or be connected with something bad ) of the same fate as that of the murder of the newly wed NED (=NED university - murdered couple were graduates of NED) couple. The victim may be alive but is not very far from being overwhelmed into silence. She, essentially a victim of a moth-eaten system, faces a lonely, losing battle largely due to the absence of a strengthened medico-legal (=relating to both medicine and law) structure, an independent forensics (=the use of scientfic tests to solve crimes) department and a committed, amply (=sufficient) compensated police force. Justice, therefore, awaits another quiet burial.</description></item><item><title>Re: URGENT ATTENTION BOSS: WOULD YOU PLS COMMENT ON 'MY MOTIVATION LETTER'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentAttentionBossWouldMotivation-Letter/zlclh/post.htm#472420</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:08:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:472420</guid><dc:creator>Mister Micawber</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;I have reviewed your letter again, with suggested changes in bold.&amp;nbsp; I cannot follow all your colours and interjections, so I have merely amended as I think best (and some of them are improvements on my own previous suggestions):&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Program Code: &lt;/strong&gt;MKT2345&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;February 2, 2008&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dear Sir/Madam:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am writing to apply for&lt;b&gt; your&lt;/b&gt; Masterâs Programme in &amp;nbsp;***. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My educational background is in the principles and practices of&amp;nbsp;marketing &lt;b&gt;management&lt;/b&gt;.
I completed a three-year BBA (&lt;b&gt;Honours&lt;/b&gt;) IT program in 2004. My studies have
guided me through systematic &lt;b&gt;research&lt;/b&gt;, analytical thinking,
management of resources and information evaluation. &lt;b&gt;I completed&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;my&lt;/b&gt; MBA with specialization in marketing in
December 2005.&amp;nbsp; Marketing Management, Advertising, Sales Management,
Services Marketing, Business Strategy&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; Leadership Management&amp;nbsp;and Entrepreneurship&amp;nbsp;were among my favourite subjects &lt;b&gt;within&lt;/b&gt; the MBA program&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After completing my &lt;b&gt;MBA, I&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;started my career at an international level. In June 2006, I was employed as an Operations Supervisor for a large &lt;b&gt;supermarket chain&lt;/b&gt; in Saudi Arabia.&amp;nbsp; This &lt;b&gt;was valuable experience in leading&lt;/b&gt; a multinational team to plan&lt;b&gt; and&lt;/b&gt; manage the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;availability&lt;/b&gt; of
thousands of&amp;nbsp;brands&amp;nbsp;with &lt;b&gt;complex&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;supplier&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;networks and&lt;/b&gt; demanding
&lt;b&gt;international&lt;/b&gt; customers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;In addition to&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;daily supermarket operations&lt;/b&gt;, I have also been &lt;b&gt;analysing&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;leading brands&lt;/b&gt;. For &lt;b&gt;example, the key Saudi fresh dairy product brands&lt;/b&gt; are Almarai, Nadec, Nada, and Alsafi Danone. I have &lt;b&gt;been compiling&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;monthly&lt;/b&gt; sales figures&amp;nbsp; and &lt;b&gt;attempting&lt;/b&gt; to determine why Almarai is the top selling &lt;b&gt;brand.&amp;nbsp; My analysis&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;shows that Alamarai&amp;nbsp; management focuses on high quality product, packaging design, promotions (renting 60% of the category shelf space) and&amp;nbsp;advertising.&amp;nbsp; The company&amp;nbsp;uses&lt;b&gt; a &lt;/b&gt;strategy of market penetration to beat the competition&lt;b&gt;; promotion&lt;/b&gt;
emphasises brand strengths across segments and an intensive
distribution network is maintained locally.

&lt;p&gt;My two-year contract will soon&lt;b&gt; terminate&lt;/b&gt; and I have now been offered a Store Manager position, but I have a strong ambition to become a marketing/management specialist&lt;b&gt;, which I cannot do&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;without a fuller&lt;/b&gt; understanding of a specific marketing/management field.&amp;nbsp; Obtaining a one-year master's degree from *** means becoming a
specialist or &lt;b&gt;advancing&lt;/b&gt; a step towards &lt;b&gt;that goal&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have already met people from many
nations in Saudi Arabia, and I will further learn from others
while living in a new culture. I will make new friends from Europe,
will learn their life&lt;b&gt; styles&lt;/b&gt;, achieving my&amp;nbsp;objective of
personal growth, and when I complete my master's degree I will achieve
my objective of professional growth. &lt;b&gt;Your&lt;/b&gt; programme will equip me with
the necessary skills to continue to acquire new knowledge and
understanding throughout &lt;b&gt;my career.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope that the combination of my past experiences and academic education will qualify me as a University of *** master's programme candidate. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Don't EVER use an ampersand in a formal letter unless it is part of a book/course/etc title!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: URGENT ATTENTION BOSS: WOULD YOU PLS COMMENT ON 'MY MOTIVATION LETTER'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentAttentionBossWouldMotivation-Letter/zlcvn/post.htm#472307</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:40:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:472307</guid><dc:creator>Mars4sweden</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Thankyou very much &lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff1493" color=#ffffff&gt;Mister Micawber&lt;/FONT&gt;! The revised letter is as following after your suggested changes. and few&amp;nbsp;additions from myside. I applied for three diffenent Master programs. International Marketing, Leadership Management and Entrepreneurship &amp;amp; Innovation.&amp;nbsp;Some Paras need to be customised seperately for each program........&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;I am waiting for your last OK signal!&amp;nbsp;to pass ot on.... &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Program Code: &lt;/STRONG&gt;MKT2345&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;February 2, 2008&amp;nbsp;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Dear Sir/Madam:&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I am writing to apply for the Masterâs Programme in &amp;nbsp;***. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;My educational background is in the principles&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;and practices of&amp;nbsp;marketing &lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;&lt;FONT color=#ff0000&gt;(Management for other programs)&lt;/FONT&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt; I completed a three-year BBA (Hons)-IT program in 2004. My studies have guided me through systematic researching, analytical thinking, management of resources and information evaluation. I continued my studies and completed an MBA with specialization in marketing in December 2005.&amp;nbsp; Marketing Management, Advertising, Sales Management, Services Marketing, Business Strategy&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; Leadership &lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;Management&amp;nbsp;and Entrepreneurship&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;were among my favourite subjects of the MBA program&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#ff0000&gt;(I wana say after my mba,&amp;nbsp;my plan was&amp;nbsp;to go international&amp;nbsp;thats why i used ''PLANNED'')&lt;/FONT&gt; After completing my MBA&lt;B&gt;,&lt;/B&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;as part&amp;nbsp;of my plan&lt;/FONT&gt; I&amp;nbsp;started my career at an international level. In June 2006&lt;B&gt;, &lt;/B&gt;I was employed as an Operations Supervisor for a large retailing firm&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;in Saudi Arabia.&amp;nbsp; This was a valuable experience in supermarket&amp;nbsp;&lt;FONT color=#000080&gt;to lead a multinational team to plan &amp;amp; manage the&amp;nbsp;availibility of thousands of&amp;nbsp;brands&amp;nbsp;with strong suppliers network &amp;amp; demanding internatonal customers&lt;/FONT&gt;.(customers from all over the world during Hajj season in Makkah) &lt;FONT color=#ff0000&gt;(Please make&amp;nbsp;this a&amp;nbsp;sensible sentence to fit here...)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#ff0000&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;Beside Daily Supermarket Operations&lt;/FONT&gt;, I have also been&lt;STRONG&gt; a&lt;/STRONG&gt;nalysing&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;the &lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;Leading Brands&lt;/FONT&gt;. For example, in the &lt;STRONG&gt;'&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;Fresh&amp;nbsp;Dairy&lt;/FONT&gt; in Saudi Arabia, the key brands are Almarai, Nadec, Nada, and Alsafi Danone&lt;STRONG&gt;.&lt;/STRONG&gt; I have&amp;nbsp;compiled a &amp;nbsp;monthly&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;sales figures and attempted to determine why Almarai is the top sell&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;ing brand?&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;STRIKE&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;I&lt;/STRONG&gt;t appears that&lt;/STRIKE&gt; &lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;The analysis&amp;nbsp;shows that &lt;/FONT&gt;Alamarai&amp;nbsp; management focuses on high quality product, packaging design, promotion&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;s&lt;/FONT&gt; (renting 60% of the category shelf space) and&amp;nbsp;advertising.&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;The company&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;uses strategy of market penetration to beat the competition. Promotion emphasises brand strengths across segments and an intensive distribution network is maintained locally.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;My two-year contract will soon expire and I have now been offered a Store Manager position&lt;STRONG&gt;, &lt;/STRONG&gt;but I have a strong ambition to become a marketing&lt;FONT color=#ff0000&gt;/management&lt;/FONT&gt; specialist&lt;STRONG&gt;,&lt;/STRONG&gt; and I cannot become a specialist without having a full understanding&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;of a specific marketing&lt;FONT color=#ff0000&gt;/management&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;field.&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Obtaining a one-year master's degree from *** means becoming a specialist (or a step towards it). I have already met people from many nations in Saudi Arabia&lt;B&gt;,&lt;/B&gt; and I will further learn from others while living in a new culture. I will make new friends from Europe, will learn their life style,&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;achieving my&amp;nbsp;objective of personal growth, and when I complete my master's degree I will achieve my objective of professional growth.&amp;nbsp;The programme will equip me with the necessary skills to continue to acquire new knowledge and understanding throughout my entire working life.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;hope that the combination of my past experiences and academic education&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;will qualify me as&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;a University of *** master's programme candidate.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: URGENT ATTENTION BOSS: WOULD YOU PLS COMMENT ON 'MY MOTIVATION LETTER'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentAttentionBossWouldMotivation-Letter/zlbwk/post.htm#472083</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:09:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:472083</guid><dc:creator>Mister Micawber</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;I have struck out unnecessary or inappropriate verbiage, made some corrections (in bold).&amp;nbsp; You may also have to fix the sentence structure to correct for my deletions&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;February 2, 2008 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Director of the Program &lt;br&gt;Department of ABC &lt;br&gt;University of ABC &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dear Dr Smith:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am writing to apply for the Masterâs Programme in &amp;nbsp;***. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I am confident that the programme corresponds well with my plans of
becoming a specialist in marketing field. It is my dream and desire to
be admitted in *** and pursue my *** studies in the field of Marketing.&lt;/strike&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;My educational background is&lt;b&gt; in the&lt;/b&gt; principles&lt;b&gt; and&lt;/b&gt;
practices of &lt;strike&gt;the&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;b&gt;m&lt;/b&gt;arketing &lt;strike&gt;field&lt;/strike&gt;. I &lt;strike&gt;have successfully&lt;/strike&gt; completed a &lt;b&gt;three-year&lt;/b&gt; BBA (&lt;b&gt;Hons&lt;/b&gt;)-IT program in 2004. My studies have guided me
through systematic researching, analytical thinking, &lt;b&gt;m&lt;/b&gt;anagement of
resources and information evaluation. I continued my studies &lt;b&gt;and&lt;/b&gt;
completed an MBA with specialization in marketing &lt;strike&gt;field&lt;/strike&gt; in December 2005.&amp;nbsp; Marketing Management, Advertising, Sales Management, Services
Marketing, Business Strategy and Leadership were among my favourite
subjects &lt;b&gt;of the MBA program&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I love to play computer strategic games, Chess game I mostly play
with my compute which I never won, Graphics, Animations, Web Designing,
Reading something interesting online, cooking, outing, meeting just
everyone in a group and selecting good people as my close friends are
my hobbies. I feel no shame in meeting new people, talking them, and
playing jokes.&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After my studies&lt;b&gt;,&lt;/b&gt; I &lt;b&gt;plan&lt;/b&gt; to start my career &lt;b&gt;at&lt;/b&gt; an international level, In June 2006&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;I was &lt;b&gt;employed&lt;/b&gt; as an Operations Supervisor &lt;b&gt;for &lt;/b&gt;a &lt;b&gt;large retailing firm &lt;/b&gt;in Saudi Arabia.&amp;nbsp; This was&lt;b&gt; a valuable
experience&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;in supermarket management,&lt;/b&gt; with thousands of &lt;b&gt;products and&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;stiff &lt;/b&gt;competition&lt;strike&gt; among different brands and huge variety of
products&lt;/strike&gt;.&lt;strike&gt; Such an experience I was unable to get in my country.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;During this contract, I have been a&lt;/b&gt;nalysing&lt;b&gt; the&lt;/b&gt; top&lt;b&gt; five&lt;/b&gt; brands of&lt;b&gt; various &lt;/b&gt;product
&lt;b&gt;categories&lt;/b&gt;. For &lt;b&gt;example&lt;/b&gt;, in the &lt;b&gt;'fresh milk &amp;amp; juices'&lt;/b&gt; category in Saudi
Arabia, the key brands are &lt;b&gt;Almarai, Nadec, Nada, and Safi.&lt;/b&gt; I &lt;b&gt;have compiled&lt;/b&gt;
weekly/monthly&lt;b&gt; sales figures&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;attempted to determine&lt;/b&gt; why &lt;b&gt;Almarai&lt;/b&gt;
is &lt;b&gt;the top seller&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;It appears that Alamarai&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;management focuses&lt;/b&gt; on high
quality &lt;b&gt;product, packaging design,&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;promotion&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;b&gt;renting 60% of the category shelf space&lt;/b&gt;), &lt;b&gt;advertising&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;efficient daily delivery&lt;/b&gt;, and &lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt; huge network of
branches &lt;b&gt;throughout Saudi Arabia&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;p&gt;My &lt;b&gt;two-year&lt;/b&gt; contract &lt;strike&gt;of two years is going to&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;b&gt;will soon&lt;/b&gt; expire and I &lt;b&gt;have now&lt;/b&gt; &lt;strike&gt;already&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;b&gt;been&lt;/b&gt; offered
a Store Manager position&lt;strike&gt; for next contract&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;b&gt;, but&lt;/b&gt; I &lt;b&gt;have a&lt;/b&gt; strong &lt;b&gt;ambition&lt;/b&gt; &lt;strike&gt;in myself to further study&lt;/strike&gt; to become a marketing
specialist&lt;b&gt;, and&lt;/b&gt; I cannot &lt;b&gt;become&lt;/b&gt; a specialist without having &lt;b&gt;a full understanding
&lt;/b&gt;of a specific &lt;b&gt;marketing &lt;/b&gt;field&lt;strike&gt; in Marketing&lt;/strike&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Education from *** is affordable for me as compared to other ***
countries. *** is a good safer place for other nations. *** is in
between the best universities in *** and secondly ***University has a
course offer (***) which relates to my goals. Thatâs why it is number
one in my selection criteria.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obtaining a one-year&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;master's degree&lt;/b&gt; from *** means becoming a &lt;b&gt;specialist&lt;/b&gt; (or a
step towards it).&lt;strike&gt; I can put a high price for my services. I will
achieve my first objective of â&lt;u&gt;Financial Growth&lt;/u&gt;â I will be
differentiated from my competitors by having Masters from ***
University.&lt;/strike&gt; I &lt;b&gt;have&lt;/b&gt; already met&lt;b&gt; people from many nations&lt;/b&gt; in Saudi Arabia&lt;b&gt;,&lt;/b&gt; and I will further
learn &lt;b&gt;from others&lt;/b&gt; while living in a new culture. I will make new friends from
Europe, will learn their life style,&lt;b&gt; achieving&lt;/b&gt; my &lt;strike&gt;second&lt;/strike&gt; objective of p&lt;b&gt;ersonal growth, and when&lt;/b&gt; I &lt;strike&gt;will&lt;/strike&gt; complete &lt;b&gt;my&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;master's&lt;/b&gt; degree I will &lt;strike&gt;already&lt;/strike&gt; achieve my&lt;strike&gt; third&lt;/strike&gt; objective of &lt;b&gt;professional growth&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The &lt;b&gt;programme&lt;/b&gt; will equip me with the necessary skills to continue to
acquire new knowledge and understanding throughout my entire working
life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&lt;b&gt; hope&lt;/b&gt; that the combination of my past experiences and
academic &lt;b&gt;education &lt;/b&gt;will qualify me as&lt;b&gt; a&lt;/b&gt; University of *** &lt;b&gt;master's programme&lt;/b&gt;
candidate.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>URGENT ATTENTION BOSS: WOULD YOU PLS COMMENT ON 'MY MOTIVATION LETTER'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentAttentionBossWouldMotivation-Letter/zlrvp/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:40:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:471731</guid><dc:creator>Mars4sweden</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;I AM SENDING THE MOTIVATION LETTER AFTER&amp;nbsp; 2-3 DAYS! PLS GIVE YOUR COMMENTS TO MAKE IT ACCURATE N PERFECT! THIS FORUM IS DOIN A GREAT JOB!.... JUST WELDONE!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Director of the Program &lt;BR&gt;Department of ABC &lt;BR&gt;University of ABC &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;February 2, 2008 &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I am writing to apply for the Masterâs Programme in &amp;nbsp;***. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I am confident that the programme corresponds well with my plans of becoming a specialist in marketing field. It is my dream and desire to be admitted in *** and pursue my *** studies in the field of Marketing. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;My educational background is well versed with principles &amp;amp; practices of the Marketing field. I have successfully completed a 3 years &lt;U&gt;BBA (HONS)-IT&lt;/U&gt; program in 2004. My studies have guided me through systematic researching, analytical thinking, Management of resources and information evaluation. I continued my studies &amp;amp; completed an &lt;U&gt;MBA&lt;/U&gt; with specialization in marketing field in December 2005.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Marketing Management, Advertising, Sales Management, Services Marketing, Business Strategy and Leadership were among my favourite subjects in MBA.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I love to play computer strategic games, Chess game I mostly play with my compute which I never won, Graphics, Animations, Web Designing, Reading something interesting online, cooking, outing, meeting just everyone in a group and selecting good people as my close friends are my hobbies. I feel no shame in meeting new people, talking them, and playing jokes. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;After my studies I planned to start my career from an international level, In June 2006 I was appointed as an &lt;U&gt;Operations Supervisor&lt;/U&gt; in a Multibillionaire Retailing Firm in Saudi Arabia. Itâs a fruitful experience of a Supermarket Management with thousands of brands, toughest competition among different brands and huge variety of products. Such an experience I was unable to get in my country. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;My contract of two years is going to expire and I am already offered a Store Manager position for next contract. But I realize the strong inspiration in myself to further study to become a marketing specialist. I cannot be a specialist without having perfect knowledge of a specific field in Marketing.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;While In store I keep on Analysing top 5 brands of a product category. For Example in Fresh Milk &amp;amp; Juices category in Saudi Arabia the key brands are ALMARAI, NADEC, NADA, SAFI. I make weekly/monthly analysis on sales figure and try to find out why ALMARAI is number 1. The answer is ALMARAI BRAND Manager Focuses on high quality product (Core product taste, freshness, design to packing), Promotions (60% shelf space rented of all fresh section, Advertising), Placing/delivering daily by proper Vehicles and huge network of branches in whole Saudia.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Education from *** is affordable for me as compared to other *** countries. *** is a good safer place for other nations. *** is in between the best universities in *** and secondly ***University has a course offer (***) which relates to my goals. Thatâs why it is number one in my selection criteria.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Getting one year Masters from ***means becoming a Specialist (or a step towards it). I can put a high price for my services. I will achieve my first objective of â&lt;U&gt;Financial Growth&lt;/U&gt;â I will be differentiated from my competitors by having Masters from *** University. I already met many Nations in Saudi Arabia and will further learn while living in a new culture. I will make new friends from Europe, will learn their life style it will achieve my second objective â&lt;U&gt;Personal Growth&lt;/U&gt;â. When I will complete the Masters degree I will already achieve my third objective of â&lt;U&gt;Professional Growth&lt;/U&gt;â. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The study will equip me with the necessary skills to continue to acquire new knowledge and understanding throughout my entire working life. I believe that the combination of my past experiences and academic knowledge will qualify me as an University of *** student candidate.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Motivation Statement, need some help</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MotivationStatement/zjnvd/post.htm#465650</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:58:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:465650</guid><dc:creator>Mister Micawber</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hello Tanja.&amp;nbsp; Basically, it is too wordy; few registrars will have the patience to wade through all that.&amp;nbsp; I have crossed out unnecessary verbiage that should be deleted, and I have underlined any other (resulting) problem areas.&amp;nbsp; You will have to do more revision to gramatically integrate the result of my deletions.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;Motivation&lt;u&gt; statement.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strike&gt;At
present&lt;/strike&gt; I am a fourth year student &lt;u&gt;of&lt;/u&gt; the Economics Department of &lt;strike&gt;the&lt;/strike&gt;
AAA University (Russia), &lt;u&gt;specialized&lt;/u&gt; in Application of Mathematical
Methods &lt;u&gt;in&lt;/u&gt; Economics. I have chosen this area because it calls for new
ideas and has &lt;u&gt;an &lt;/u&gt;&lt;strike&gt;obvious&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;u&gt; implication in&lt;/u&gt; real life. Quantitive Economics
&lt;strike&gt;is the field&lt;/strike&gt; I am deeply interested in and I would like to pursue&lt;strike&gt; my
studies in this direction&lt;/strike&gt;. &lt;strike&gt;This is the main reason&lt;/strike&gt; I want to
participate in the QQQ Master Program.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I think that&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;u&gt;due to&lt;/u&gt; my
&lt;strike&gt;previous&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;u&gt;academical&lt;/u&gt; experience &lt;strike&gt;in AAA University&lt;/strike&gt; I have &lt;strike&gt;acquired
&lt;/strike&gt;sufficient&lt;strike&gt; base of&lt;/strike&gt; knowledge in economics, &lt;u&gt;as well as strong&lt;/u&gt;
mathematical background&lt;strike&gt;, which permits me&lt;/strike&gt; to satisfy the requirements
&lt;u&gt;of QQQ&lt;/u&gt; Program. I &lt;strike&gt;made progress in studying all the theoretical and
practical courses,&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;u&gt;concentrating&lt;/u&gt; &lt;strike&gt;my special attention&lt;/strike&gt; on mathematical
modeling, optimization and econometrics.&lt;strike&gt; In addition, &lt;/strike&gt;I &lt;u&gt;felt the&lt;/u&gt; lively
interest in researching some &lt;u&gt;concrete&lt;/u&gt; areas and this experience taught
me how to apply economic theory to &lt;strike&gt;the actual&lt;/strike&gt; topical problems. For
instance, my &lt;u&gt;3rd&lt;/u&gt; year research project &lt;u&gt;is&lt;/u&gt; &lt;strike&gt;devoted to&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;the&lt;/strike&gt; mathematical
modeling in monopoly pricing on the telecommunication market; in my
&lt;u&gt;Bachelor Degree paper&lt;/u&gt; I &lt;strike&gt;try to&lt;/strike&gt; evaluate the impact of infrastructure on
&lt;strike&gt;the level of &lt;/strike&gt;economic development in Russia&lt;strike&gt;n regions&lt;/strike&gt;.&lt;br&gt;During my
fourth year, I also &lt;strike&gt;had the exceptional possibility to &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;u&gt;take&lt;/u&gt; an
internship &lt;u&gt;in&lt;/u&gt; &lt;strike&gt;the well-known international auditing and consulting
company â&lt;/strike&gt;Ernst &amp;amp; Young.&lt;strike&gt; There is no doubt that I can turn this
experience to my advantage. Firstly,&lt;/strike&gt; I &lt;strike&gt;had the opportunity to&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;u&gt;acquire&lt;/u&gt;
&lt;strike&gt;some new important&lt;/strike&gt; abilities which I &lt;u&gt;could&lt;/u&gt; use for research&lt;u&gt; in &lt;/u&gt;my
master dissertation, such as &lt;strike&gt;analytical&lt;/strike&gt; skills &lt;strike&gt;that make it possible&lt;/strike&gt; to
analyze &lt;strike&gt;considerable amounts of&lt;/strike&gt; information in the most effective way.
&lt;strike&gt;Secondly&lt;/strike&gt;, &lt;strike&gt;combining work with study&lt;/strike&gt; I learned how to manage my time and
establish priorities. &lt;strike&gt;Finally, the&lt;/strike&gt; work &lt;strike&gt;experience&lt;/strike&gt; in&lt;u&gt; the&lt;/u&gt; international
company is &lt;u&gt;precious&lt;/u&gt; for my&lt;strike&gt; future&lt;/strike&gt; career. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strike&gt;There is another
reason why &lt;/strike&gt;I want to apply for QQQ Program &lt;b&gt;because&lt;/b&gt; &lt;strike&gt;I think that unfortunately&lt;/strike&gt;
in Russia there is no concept of economics as a single science, and
most &lt;strike&gt;of the theoretical and practical&lt;/strike&gt; approaches are adopted from
foreign &lt;u&gt;school&lt;/u&gt; of economics.&lt;strike&gt; However,&lt;/strike&gt; for me it is &lt;strike&gt;very&lt;/strike&gt; important to be&lt;u&gt;
in centre&lt;/u&gt; of &lt;strike&gt;the&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;topical&lt;/strike&gt; scientific activity,&lt;u&gt; feel&lt;/u&gt; the latest
tendencies and follow the&lt;strike&gt; permanent&lt;/strike&gt; development of economic concepts.
&lt;strike&gt;Great European traditions in economics as well as its actual scientific
work&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;I am attracted to the BBB University, for instance&lt;/strike&gt; the possibility to
collaborate with eminent professors from several research laboratories
such as *** and YYY &lt;b&gt;attracts me to BBB&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;u&gt; QQQ&lt;/u&gt; Program will also permit
me to work in &lt;u&gt;the&lt;/u&gt; competitive environment, to share ideas &lt;strike&gt;and to
establish connections&lt;/strike&gt; in the scientific and business world. &lt;br&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Besides,
I am interested in &lt;/strike&gt;this program&lt;strike&gt; because it &lt;/strike&gt;meets my general interests
in economics and&lt;strike&gt; particularly&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;u&gt; enables&lt;/u&gt; me to develop my current research
project in macroeconomics and econometrics. For example, I could take a
different view of mathematical modeling in macroeconomics because of
the courses NNN and MMM. &lt;strike&gt;I see&lt;/strike&gt; another &lt;strike&gt;significant &lt;/strike&gt;advantage of the
curriculum â &lt;strike&gt;the possibility&lt;/strike&gt; to choose among numerous elective courses&lt;strike&gt;.
Thereby I can&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;u&gt;concentrate&lt;/u&gt; &lt;strike&gt;my attention&lt;/strike&gt; on the &lt;strike&gt;set of&lt;/strike&gt; lectures that
&lt;strike&gt;exactly&lt;/strike&gt; satisfy my requirements. In addition, &lt;strike&gt;during my studies not all
the fields were covered although they were interesting for me, such as
study of finance, which was rather limited, and that is why&lt;/strike&gt; I would
like to take the course OOO to broaden my horizons in this field. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Obviously,&lt;/strike&gt;
this degree will give &lt;strike&gt;a considerable&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;u&gt;incentive&lt;/u&gt; to my &lt;strike&gt;professional&lt;/strike&gt;
career. Econometrics, different methods of data estimation and
prognostics can be successfully applied in &lt;strike&gt;the business environment of
today, such as&lt;/strike&gt; business analytics, forecasting of financial markets,
etc. My work &lt;strike&gt;experience&lt;/strike&gt; in a big consulting company gave me&lt;strike&gt; a reason&lt;/strike&gt; to
think that there were numerous possibilities for professional
development and a great demand for specialists&lt;strike&gt; in this area&lt;/strike&gt;. &lt;strike&gt;In this
connection, I consider the&lt;/strike&gt; study at QQQ Program &lt;b&gt;will&lt;/b&gt; extend
my knowledge,&lt;strike&gt; which is&lt;/strike&gt; necessary for my &lt;strike&gt;successful&lt;/strike&gt; promotion in this
sphere. &lt;strike&gt;With my dedication and acquired abilities, it will be the best
combination for the achievement of my professional ambitions&lt;/strike&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thus,
I believe that my academic background in &lt;strike&gt;different areas of&lt;/strike&gt; economics
and mathematics and serious intentions to study and research will be
beneficial for my graduate studies.&lt;strike&gt;&amp;nbsp; Moreover, I am sure that using all
my ideas, experiences and abilities I can make my best contribution to
the QQQ Program.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


&lt;br&gt;







 &lt;a href="../user/SendEmail.aspx?UserId=64351" target="_blank" title="../user/SendEmail.aspx?UserId=64351"&gt;&lt;img title="Send Tanja an email" src="../Themes/default/images/post_button_email.gif" alt="" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="AddPost.aspx?ForumID=0&amp;amp;UserId=64351" target="_blank" title="AddPost.aspx?ForumID=0&amp;amp;UserId=64351"&gt;&lt;img title="Send Tanja a private message" src="../Themes/default/images/post_button_pm.gif" alt="" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Motivation Statement, need some help</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MotivationStatement/zjlnh/post.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:48:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:465229</guid><dc:creator>Tanja</dc:creator><description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Dear all,&lt;br&gt;I would like to apply for a master program in economics (mathematical methods/quantitive economics). &lt;br&gt;There is a draft of my motivation statement. I really tried my best. Though I think there are some weaknesses and I need a fresh look to figure them out. &lt;br&gt;So, I would appreciate if you give me some good advice how to make it better.&lt;br&gt;Thanks in advance!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Motivation statement.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At present I am a fourth year student of the Economics Department of the AAA University (Russia), specialized in Application of Mathematical Methods in Economics. I have chosen this area because it calls for new ideas and has an obvious implication in real life. Quantitive Economics is the field I am deeply interested in and I would like to pursue my studies in this direction. This is the main reason I want to participate in the QQQ Master Program.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I think that due to my previous academical experience in AAA University I have acquired sufficient base of knowledge in economics, as well as strong mathematical background, which permits me to satisfy the requirements of QQQ Program. I made progress in studying all the theoretical and practical courses, concentrating my special attention on mathematical modeling, optimization and econometrics. In addition, I felt the lively interest in researching some concrete areas and this experience taught me how to apply economic theory to the actual topical problems. For instance, my 3rd year research project is devoted to the mathematical modeling in monopoly pricing on the telecommunication market; in my Bachelor Degree paper I try to evaluate the impact of infrastructure on the level of economic development in Russian regions.&lt;br&gt;During my fourth year, I also had the exceptional possibility to take an internship in the well-known international auditing and consulting company âErnst &amp;amp; Youngâ. There is no doubt that I can turn this experience to my advantage. Firstly, I had the opportunity to acquire some new important abilities, which I could use for research in my master dissertation, such as analytical skills that make it possible to analyze considerable amounts of information in the most effective way. Secondly, combining work with study I learned how to manage my time and establish priorities. Finally, the work experience in the international company is precious for my future career. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is another reason why I want to apply for QQQ Program. I think that unfortunately in Russia there is no concept of economics as a single science, and most of the theoretical and practical approaches are adopted from foreign school of economics. However, for me it is very important to be in centre of the topical scientific activity, feel the latest tendencies and follow the permanent development of economic concepts. Great European traditions in economics as well as its actual scientific work attract me to the BBB University, for instance the possibility to collaborate with eminent professors from several research laboratories such as *** and YYY is of great value too. QQQ Program will also permit me to work in the competitive environment, to share ideas and to establish connections in the scientific and business world. &lt;br&gt;Besides, I am interested in this program because it meets my general interests in economics and particularly enables me to develop my current research project in macroeconomics and econometrics. For example, I could take a different view of mathematical modeling in macroeconomics because of the courses NNN and MMM. I see another significant advantage of the curriculum â the possibility to choose among numerous elective courses. Thereby I can concentrate my attention on the set of lectures that exactly satisfy my requirements. In addition, during my studies not all the fields were covered although they were interesting for me, such as study of finance, which was rather limited, and that is why I would like to take the course OOO to broaden my horizons in this field. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obviously, this degree will give a considerable incentive to my professional career. Econometrics, different methods of data estimation and prognostics can be successfully applied in the business environment of today, such as business analytics, forecasting of financial markets, etc. My work experience in a big consulting company gave me a reason to think that there were numerous possibilities for professional development and a great demand for specialists in this area. In this connection, I consider the study at QQQ Program to be a way to extend my knowledge, which is necessary for my successful promotion in this sphere. With my dedication and acquired abilities, it will be the best combination for the achievement of my professional ambitions. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thus, I believe that my academic background in different areas of economics and mathematics and serious intentions to study and research will be beneficial for my graduate studies.&amp;nbsp; Moreover, I am sure that using all my ideas, experiences and abilities I can make my best contribution to the QQQ Program.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>please take a look at this businees letter and drop ur comments ,thanks !</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/LookBusineesLetterDrop/zjwqg/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:49:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:464412</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;Thank you for your quick response.After serious consideration ,the top&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; administrators of our company have worked out some concret steps to promote your products in Far East ,especially in China,which is outlined specifically as follows:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; First, our 120 salesmen of 16 national-wide agencies of the company will launch a large-scale publicity and promotion activities for your company, which i am sure will further improve your reputation in China, and the enhancement of the turnover will be just a matter of time.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Here,especially, i would like to give you a brief introduction of our sales network with characteristics. There are 8 sales department in the company,each department is responsible for different regions of the country, and in each department, there is highly division of labour for every single team which is typically formed by 5 staffs. Moreover, for each team , their functions include market demand exploitation, customer resource and relationship development,order exploitation and technical supporting etc .For instance, we have many projects concerning market promotion,such as large-scale of promotion materials delivery,national spread patrol exhibition of relevant products, and hold some specialized seminars regularly and so on. And we have been positoned as one of the most influential teaching instruments suppliers in China,and more encouragingly,we have more than 3000 stable customers of colleges and universities all over the country,and the number we believe will definitely increase after your participation.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Second,considering the great advantages of low-cost production materials and ample human resources, we suggest that as to those products which can be produced in China,we can make joint investment,namely, with your service of necessary technology consultancy,our company&amp;nbsp; take the responsibility for&amp;nbsp; the production ,management and service of the products, which i believe&amp;nbsp; will sharply reduce the cost and the time to deliver goods. Of course, we will ensure the protection on the Intellectual Property Rights of your company.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Third, after the establishment of the above-mentioned encouraging strategic partnership with your company ,we can import your goods directly to other countries in Asia,which will shorten the production period and further enhance the&amp;nbsp; volume of transaction.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Last but not least, we will submit you a quarterly report on local market situation so that we can adjust our sales strategy and research direction according to the market.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Of course,the items above are just some preliminary plans,which can be amended according to your request.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; And we wonder if you could pay a visit to our company or give me a call and come down to some details.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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