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Sep 2010 - Aug 2011 Issue 01

Content

* Editor’s note..............................1* About AAEPC Programme........2

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* Final Year Project:* The work of editor..............3-4* * Calendar of events....................4* Meet the mentors......................5* 10 Survival Tips........................6* About the contributors..........5-6

• Contribution

• Advisor: Cicy Tong• Editor: Samuel Hung• Art Director: Emily Lai• Publisher: Carman Ng

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About the magazine

SUP= What’s up is use in the greeting, our magazine is going to answer everyone’s query about the AAEPC programme. It included interview about the mentors, Final Year Project, Tips for students, calendar events. Do you see our logo? Our logo is using light painting, we are going to use a gentle and interested way to bring out the information to every audience. We hope that you will enjoy reading our magazine.

Cover Story

Programme StructureFundamentals of CommunicationEnglish in the Corporate ContextExploring Arguments in EnglishCorporate Image BuildingDigital Document DesignThe Language of Public Relations & Advertising

English in the MediaCommiunication across CulturesCopywriting & EditingAnalysing Mass MediaLanguage , Society & the Individual

General Education

About AAEPC Programme

The Future starts here

This programme produces Associate of Arts graduates with specialized abilities in the use of English forprofessional communication.

Students become skilled communicators in the AAEPC programme, learning to use English accurately and appropriately for professional and business purposes. They also develop a good command of information technology.

They are equipped with a solid foundation for further studies at bachelor degree level.

Our graduates find employment in a wide variety of organizations. As bilingual users of English and Chinese, they contribute to maintaining and developing Hong Kong as an international commercial and financialhub and as an international city.

2011 Summer Study Tours

All LS students are wel-come.For enquiries, contact: MsViola Lee at 3442-7911,

Highlights of the Study Tour

- Structured English lessons daily with students from different countries.- Visits to tourist attractions.- Home stay with local host family*.- Company and university visits#.- Pre and post-trip online English courses.- Option of staying behind.

* except Singapore# only for tours with 15 students or more

Aims and Objectives

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Kevin Forde, Programm

e Leader,AAEPCSydney

LondonNew York

Singapore

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Every EPC students are usually worry about how to do the Final Year Project (FYP) next year, because no one had faced to do a big project like this. Also the FYP will affect our careers in the future. In order to help our students to face the FYP in the next year, we have invited the group of “re:spect” member, Leo, to answer our doubt and fear of the FYP.

L:Leo S: Samuel

About the FYP

S: Hello Leo, How’s your FYP? Is it finish?L: Our FYP was officially finished in December, it was successfully finished.

S: What is the topic of your FYP?L: Our topic is “Show me respect.” re:spect is the name of the magazine “re:spect”, and show me is “Show the respect”.

S: Why would you choose this topic?L: We have chose a magazine to co-operate with, its name is “re:spect”, also show me is “show the respect” to everyone.

S: What is your role in this topic?L: Our role is seems like a kind of middleman, we found the students who are interested to be an intern-ship in the talk show , then arrange the students intern to have the interview tour, and then observed those students how they communicate with the guest in the interview. We need them to do the cover page after the interview, the best cover page will be the cover page of next vol.“re:spect”.

S; When was the talk show hold?L: 28th Nov at CityU Leacture 4

S: Who is the target audince?L: The students in school, especially for those who are mainly study in media and writing student.

S: Who is the guests of the talk show?L: There were 3 guests in the talk show, they all are employers from re:spect, They are Gary Chan, Sean Chan and Jesper Chan

S: What is your project’s sponsorship?L: E-print

S: Where did you find the sponsorship? Is it hard to find the sponsorship?L: We found the sponsorship in the internet. We have contact some other companies to sponsor us. At last it was only e-print is willing to sponsor us. It is not to difficult to find the sponsorship, it only cause time to phone or email to the companies to request for sponsor-ship. And we have also found Bonaqua and Vitasoy to sponsor us, but they were refused to sponsor us, because the talk show’s proportion is not big, they are not willing to sponsor a small talk show.

S; what is the hard time when you are doing the project?L: Not too much hard time when we were doing the project, because our topic is not big as other group, other groups may invite guest to have a talk in school, they need to arrange the place, time and budget. We only need to print almost 100 poster and some questionnaire. There is only one thing it makes us feel difficult, the staff of “re;spect”, they are a bit lazy, when we need the information or materials from them, they will answer us, “We will send to use”, afterwards, we need to remind them to give the information us. I think they are a bit lazy.

During the interview...

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Calendar Events

About the magazineS: I want to know more about the mag-azine, is it release one vol. per month?L: No it will release 2 vols. per month, it will release on 1st and 15th

per month.

S: Which phase of the magazine the students of take part in?L: The vol of 15th Jan and 1st Feb the students has taken part in and also the coming vol. will also take part in the interview with the guest.S: Is every vol. will interview 1 or 1 gurop of quest?L: Every vol of story will interview 1 or 1group of guest.S: When did re:spect release their first vol.?L:They released their first vol. in 25 feb, 2008S; Is it free?L: FreeS: Where can I take the magizane?L: It will distrubit in Taikoo Place Cause-waybay and Mong Kwok pedestrain scheme in every Fri and Sat or you can find it in some record stores , 8 univer-sities and some academies.

S: That is the end of the interview, thank you for Leo to take time for our interview.S: Where can I take the magizane?L: It will be distributed in Taikoo Place Causewaybay and Mong Kwok pedestrain scheme in every Fri and Sat or you can find it in some record stores , 8 universities and some academies.

The latestr issues of re:spect

31/8 15/11

17/3

14-16/4

Orientation day Graduation day

Creative speaker series

FYP Exhibition

FYPEvents

Show me re:spect

2-3-11Discussion Forum

31-1-11 – 1-2-11

Specially for youDIY Art workshop

10-11-2-11

U-Music revolution 23-2-11

Music show

Meet the MentorsQ: Hi, how are you holding up? Are you free of work now after the FYP?L: Hello, I’m good. After the FYP, I feel like I can finally do revision regularly. I realized that I’m not the type of person that can do multi-task. I was pretty much distracted in classes before the FYP is done. So I am glad that I can focus on my studies again.

Q: Do you think that the last academic year tough?L: Yes, because the FYP is a big project that holds throughout a year, not just a period of time. At the same time, we have to manage to keep other subjects which are also important in high grades. Besides, group work that lasts for a year requires much more effort to cooperate with groupmates, which makes it harder.

Q: Is being a mentor voluntary? Or is it

chosen by lecturers?L: Mentors volunteered to participate in the programme.

Q: Do you find it happy to be a mentor?L: Yes. As I always get lost when I was a

freshman in the university, so I am grateful to help others.

Q: You have an amazing performance in the U Music Revolution! What actually is it?L: It is a show to promote group music culture which encourages people to cooperate and performtogether. So, we gathered

students from different universities to sing together so as to demonstrate the idea.

Q: Did you enjoy the concert?L: The concert was crossing universities, I sang with performers from other universities. I enjoyed it lots.

Q: Why would you choose AAEPC pro-gramme?C: I want to improve English. It will be useful for my future careen. Besides, it is great to talk to foreigners if you can speak fluent English.

Q: What do you expect to get from this programme?C: I want to improve my communicational skills, both verbally and non-verbally. For verbal skill, I hope that I can be confident during any presentation. For non verbal, I hope that I can write, such as business letter, with professional wordings.

Q: Do you think that it is tough in your last year study?C: Not at all when you compare with year 2. In year 2, you need to tackle with final year project.

Q: How are you holding up? How did you overcome the problems?C: There are different kinds of people you meet during the process of Final Year Project. Some of their attitudes may not be so good and have a

poor temper. You need to keep calm and stay positive. If your EQ is high, you can also tackle problems happily.

“You need to

keep calm &

stay positive.”

“group work that lasts for

a year requires much

more effort to cooperate

with groupmates”

Lidian Kee

Cilliano Chan

Samuel Hung Carman Ng

Like: Self challenge. Hang out & drink

with friends. Collect strange things.

Thoughts: To finish the magazine from 0 experience is a bit difficult for

me. I love self challenging. If the thing is easy to finish, I would prob-

Responsible for : Calendar Events. FYP interview.

when the magazine is done.

ably lose my motivation. I would like to have a bottle of nice white wine

Likes: rowing. kayaking. jogging. hiking. biking. Lady

Gaga. Eason Chan. Avril Lavign. Jay Chou. G.E.M.

Thoughts: motto: Let’s work hard & play hard.

Happiness is everything.

Responsible for: cover & back pages. content.

about AAPEC.

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10 Survival TipsBuh-Bye High School, there you go the new chapter of your life. Here are 10 tips for you to survive the academic year!

“ Complete the work assigned as soon as possible. Never leave the work till last minute.”

“The skills that you aquired in Digital Document Design course is extremely useful when you are working on the FYP.”

“ If you choose a host organisation that you really like for FYP, you will feel happier. Becuase you have to stick with the FYP for 1 year.”

“ A small business always has less hierarchy than a big corporation, communication is smoother in small business.”

“Sometimes a contract should be signed with the host, clearly state what you would/ would not do for them.”

“ Ask for as many sponsorship as possible, they don’t come to you unless you ask them first.”

“ You should stay with those who work hard & open to suggestions. This makes a good team for your project.”

“ FYP will cost most of your time. If you work for a part-time job, you don’t have enough time for the FYP. “

“ A clear distribution of work allows the most capable person doing what they have talent on. It enhances the efficiency of work.”

“ Ask anything you don’t understand, ask your lecturers and classmates.”

Tip #3: Social Neworkwork Tip #2:

Tip #8:

Tip #4:

Tip #6:

Tip #10:

An interesting host or-

ganisation

Sign a contract

Pay Attention to DDD

Choose a Small B as a host Host

Ask for sponsorship

Tip #1: Time Management

Tip #5: Quit your Part-time Job

Tip #9: Dare to Ask

Tip #7: Division of Work

Thoughts: To finish the magazine from 0 experience is a bit difficult for

me. I love self challenging. If the thing is easy to finish, I would prob-

Responsible for : Calendar Events. FYP interview.

ably lose my motivation. I would like to have a bottle of nice white wine

Emily Lai

Alexander Wang. the CW. Bruno Mars. parties. 852.

Likes: summer. photography. fashion.

Thoughts: this editorial publication is a huge

challenge for me. I’ve been spending a really long time on it. it put my DSLR in

a good use. seeing this published just make my day(:

Responsible for: meet the mentors. 10 survival tips. something about the

editorial team.

Credit: my dear mentor, Lidian

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