The South East Unviersity is a well respected university in Nanjing – one of the better ones. Every Saturday afternoon and Sunday I go there to work for the British Council.
Recently I was surprised to see a huge banner advertising a talk on Novel Sensorless PM Brushless Drives by
professor Z. Q. Zhu from Sheffield University.
I was considering going as it seemed quite an interesting subject and it might fire my enthusiasm for engineering. So I stood there and read on. However, even though the first sentence was a nice warmer… hooked me and made me want to read more…. I fell asleep 5 minutes into the the second sentence.
Now I know you think I’m being overly critical but I challenge you to read how many words are in the second sentence (if you stay awake that long). I counted 129 give or take.
Every week I go to Shanghai to mark written scripts and this complete disregard for sentence rules is typical of what we see. It is not uncommon even for education Chinese not to know where to put a full stop and when to use a Capital Letter. Some sentences are just a list of unconnected and meaningless words .
Poor old Sheffield University, that respectable seat of learning in the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire – little do they know what is being written in their name?
Oh yes, and if anyone is interested in this lecture I believe there are still some room left.