Friday, September 7, 2007

Compare & Contrast

Comparison of the different aspects and/ or degrees of emotional intelligence needed by two different professions between "a doctor and an engineer"

There is no person whose profession is successful without having emotional intelligence. I believe everybody has interpersonal skills except the level of skills he/she has may vary person to person. As everyone has different professions, the emotional intelligence that each person needs is different. For example, the emotional intelligence that needed to have in a doctor and in an engineer is different in many ways though they have few similar points.

No patient sees a doctor without trust and respect. A doctor must also be easy to talk and willing to listen carefully to health care concerns. He also should have interpersonal skills like how to question the patient in order to diagnose and make the right medical judgment for the patient.

As for an engineer, he needs to have good communication skills to present his innovative designs or creativity to his customers or client. He must be able to integrate his ideas with surrounding influences and business objectives. The good leadership, influential and negotiability skills are also important for an engineer.

Both a doctor and an engineer should be respectful and trusted by their patients and client but in different ways. An engineer is to be a good project planner while a doctor is a fast decision maker to cure his emergency patient. Teamwork, ability of being able to control stress and time management play important roles for both doctor and engineer too. Lastly, commitment and interest are essential facts for an engineer and doctors to be successful.


References:

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/allnewsbydate.asp?NewsID=850

http://www.auxiliumtraining.com/essential_skills_2day.htm

4 comments:

Brad Blackstone said...

This is a highly detailed paragraph. I appreciate your explanation of the importance of EQ and insights about its importance. It's also good that you read info to support your own understanding.

There are some problems with word form use and also with sentence structure. Did you work with your blogging buddy? Look at this again with those areas in mind.

Thank you, Nang, for your hard work!

ching said...

I've found out that you have some problems in your sentences:

1."There is no person whose profession is successful without having emotional intelligence." -- This sounds strange ... Maybe you can interpret it as "Most of the profession cannot success without having emotional intelligence." I use "Most of the ..." instead of " All/Every profession ...", the reason is because i don't think that everyone of them success because they have high EQ, some may only have luck, but high proportion of them have EQ.

2.."As everyone has different professions, the emotional intelligence that each person needs is different." --- I correct it as "As everyone has different professions, the level of need of EQ for different professions is different."

3."For example, the emotional intelligence that needed to have in a doctor and in an engineer is different in many ways though they have few similar points." -- "For example, the level of need of EQ for a doctor in compare with an engineer has little similarities but different in many ways."

These are the problems in your first paragraph. There are some others in the rest of the paragraphs. Please review and make them better.

Hope that my comments help :)

Sin said...

You have a good structure for your essay; you have divided the background/introduction, supporting content and summary clearly.

However, I think the sentence “I believe everybody has interpersonal skills except the level of skills he/she has may vary person to person” is a bit not suitable for this essay because you are comparing the degrees of emotional intelligence needed by two different professions. This sentence is talking interpersonal skill but emotional intelligence is more than just interpersonal intelligence. Furthermore, it does not have a very good connection with the next sentence.

During your second paragraph, you have stated “No patient sees a doctor without trust and respect” but the rest of the paragraph does not support clearly how the emotional intelligence skill can help doctor build up the trust of the patient. It just support how the skill can help doctor to make the right medical judgement.

During your summary, you are still comparing the difference between doctor and engineer. I think this should be placed in the supporting paragraph as this should be a concluding paragraph. And I think the content of the conclusion can be improve.

I am done here, look forward for your comment on mine :)

Cao Mengwei said...

"I believe everybody has interpersonal skills except the level of skills he/she has may vary person to person."
I prefer to make it "I believe everyone has interpersonal skill but just in different level".That's my opinion only.