Hi, there! This is Changheng Xu, an international student from China. Welcome to my Weebly website. It is an online graduate student writer handbook of a writing project for postgraduate students of George Mason University. As a postgraduate student majoring in Accounting, I am happy to share my experience about working on this project with you. Hopefully, that will give you some useful information in a good picture of what I have been doing for it and how may this project help with my major which is Accounting.
As we know, the ability of doing academic reading and writing is highly required for graduate students. For international students, academic writing could be a problem impeding academic success. When I am taking accounting major courses in GMU, my professors always emphasize the importance of writing skills for accountants and auditors saying that both employees and managers will be beneficial from a delicate work statement. And this project help rise the level of academic writing for international students.
It is a consecutive procedure to finish preparation for this online handbook. And the Assignment part shows my work in time order. The first assignment, which is a simple research on a professor in my GMU department, help me to write analysis of specific information rather than directly giving a description. Then in the second assignment, which is the Journal Analysis, I try to get information from a journal magazine in accounting field from various aspects, to name a few, its overall purpose, its worldwide credibility, and the members’ composition of its editorial board. The assignment three and four are analysis from different aspects focusing the same journal article: assignment three discusses the entire structure of the article, while assignment four takes more attention on language features.
All of those works benefit my writing skills and promote a cognition of academic writing. And I am delighted to share my work with you, hope you get useful information from my handbook.