Running Head: SONY ALPHA 5000 DIGITAL CAMERA 1
Technical Description: Sony Alpha 5000 Digital Camera
Pitcha Sudjaritjuntorn
The City College of New York
Technical Description Reflection Essay
Pitcha Sudjaritjuntorn
Professor Clark
English 21007-B
24 November 2018
Technical Description Self-Reflection
In the technical description assignment, I described an object by breaking it down into its parts and explaining how each part works. The object I have chosen was the Sony Alpha 5000 digital camera. Writing the technical description came with several different challenges. Firstly, while writing the description of the different camera parts, it was hard to maintain a passive voice. I was trying not to write as if I was giving instructions and tried to maintain a consistent passive voice throughout the description as well. I do think that the writing style was similar in the lab report, and since I had trouble in that assignment. The lab report did help me improve in the technical description. I also tried to keep a balance between making the technical description sound clear while incorporating enough details and information for the reader to understand how the camera functions without sounding too confusing. I had to explain to an audience who may have never used the object before and it was a challenge for me because I knew the object so well that explaining it in a simpler means was harder.
Memo Reflection Essay
Pitcha Sudjaritjuntorn
Professor Clark
English 21007-B
21 September 2018
Self-Reflection on Memo Assignment
My assignment was to write a memo to inform Dr. Vincent Boudreau, the President at the City College of New York about an ongoing issue at the campus. The characteristic features of the memo included a heading (to, from, date, and the subject), the introduction/background, and the solution. Certain items in the memo can also be bulleted for easy reading. Lastly, the memo ended with a statement asking for a follow-up meeting and it required putting the sender’s contact information at the end. The message that a memo is trying to convey is to inform or persuade within an organization. The exigency of this essay was that I had to create a memo that addresses an ongoing issue at the City College and I felt that limited seating in the cafeteria in the North Academic Center is one of the common problems students face. Therefore, that specific issue motivated me to write the memo.
Memo
Memo
To: Dr. Vincent Boudreau, President of the City College of New York
From: Pitcha Sudjaritjuntorn, student at the City College of New York
Date: September 11, 2018
Re: Limited seating area in the North Academic Center cafeteria
Background
I am a freshman at the City College of New York and I would like to address an ongoing issue occurring here at this institution; limited seating area in the North Academic Center cafeteria. Many students leave class to find that there is no space for them to sit. This causes an overwhelming situation, which leads to many of them to scour the campus to find somewhere else to sit. Most of the time when there are no seats in the cafeteria, there are also barely any sitting area in the library as well, which leads to students looking for a place outside, hallways, or perhaps even outside the campus. There are several reasons why this can cause a problem:
Formal Letter of Introduction
Pitcha Sudjaritjuntorn
September 1st, 2018
Professor Nancy Clark
The City College of New York
160 Convent Ave,
New York, NY 10031
Dear Professor Clark:
My name is Pitcha Sudjaritjuntorn and I am currently a first-year computer science major at the City College of New York. I lived in the Bronx my whole life until my family and I moved to Carmel, New York in June 2016. Despite the long commute from Carmel to Manhattan, I chose to attend the City College of New York because of its compelling engineering program and I prefer an urban campus to a suburban/rural campus. I chose to major in computer science because the world is rapidly approaching into a more technological-innovated world day by day. Computer science is very interesting, and I want to use my interest in computers and motivation of helping others to solve the daily problems going on in today’s technological field.
