My overall experience with ENG2003 was quite pleasant. I got to learn how to develop and enhance my communication skills. To be honest it was my first time making some of the assignments we were tasked with, for example, assignment 1. I have read about and looked at many cover letter examples but, I have never had one of my own, it was great practice for me before having to do co-op. I also learned the principles of effective communication in engineering, including how to write a technical report for term project 1, give presentations (assignment 4 and tutorials) and communicate with our audience (Assignments 2 and 3) Finally, I also made many friends over the semester during lectures and tutorials, with a good feeling that I will be seeing them with me next year. 

During the first lecture of the semester, the professor was talking about how we will be able to express ourselves better with not just our classmates but with our future employers and friends. With this information and not reading the course syllabus at the time, I expected the course to have more projects with live presentations or oral exams/assignments. We did, however, get two different assignments (assignments 2 and 4) which had us presenting with our faces in front of the camera and I very much enjoyed those assignments because they took me out of my comfort zone. In short most of the content in the course was to be expected except for the amount of writing which was a little surprising to me. 
Even though they are so simple the 7cs and 9 axioms of communications have to be the easiest thing to forget if not practised often.

In my opinion I think they are the most useful content in the course. They set a standard to your writing or way of communication that makes you seem professional and credible. It is like a checklist or rubric on how for example an email should be sent or a cover letter should be written or how a speech should be presented. Nevertheless there are many other content that I did find useful or educational, like week 7 Editing and feedback which made me realise how important it is to give good critical feedback to let the person know where he ended up making mistakes. Another example would be week 9 technical graphics which was showing how we can tweak numbers into our favour and the difference in graphs.

There were a few topics that I found interesting in the course like week 8 digital and professional correspondence where I learned a few things about emails that I didn’t know before, to be more specific bcc and cc. I knew a little bit about cc which is sending the same email to multiple people with all of them knowing who this email has been sent to, but I didn't know anything about bcc where you can privately send the same email to someone without the other person knowing. Another topic that I found interesting was week 10 oral presentations. I have always been fond of great presentations but seem to lack the experience and nature of having a great speech voice. For example, in first year engineering we talked a lot about Steve jobs apple presentation. There were so many points in his presentation that we spent the whole 2 hour class talking about it. In the end I think week 10 helped me improve my presentations.