My chosen mentor

I have always looked up to my dad(Adrian Garnham) as being a very smart hard working man, he was not the brightest of students at school but he worked very hard to get to where he is today and i'm proud of him, he also wishes that id follow in his footsteps in his success. He was also a student at Anglia Ruskin university of which he graduated in 1997 with a 2:1 in Automotive Engineering of which is his current job involves.

He has also done a lot of self teaching including most web based programming and has build his own business website to back his knowledge.

I feel he could be a good mentor as he is smart and always willing to give me a hand , he also has extensive knowledge of parts of the course I am doing ,which happen to be the parts I feel I may struggle in. He would be there to offer me advice and able to guide me if I get stuck.

Saying that I would also unofficially like to have my mum be my proof reader, she has very good English skills and is very good at rewording sentences to get the best out of what I am writing. She is also not very competent with a computer which means that she can read my essays from a fresh point of view not knowing the subject, meaning the essay will have to be written using the correct language for her to understand the meaning of different concepts. If she learns something and understands what I have written about I would think the essay was well written and understandable for the novice user.

Essay Structure

This would be my first essay and essay structure that I have produced , its only in basic rough at the moment as I know improvements will need to be made. My written skills are quite poor as well as my true in depth knowledge of the subject I have chosen to write and essay about. Also I find it very hard to produce written pieces of work. Also I have a real problem understanding and written complex words as you may see below.

Essay Structure

Impact of Mobile phones on society

Introduction the the topic:

Will include an introduction to mobile phones, when they were commercialized , the uses , what they are able to do , include the stages of development (ie; just a phone to texting to mobile internet) who the target audience is (who uses the fones and a rough impact it has on there life , could vary from businessman to student to a mother keeping an eye on her kids) , could also explain the "trend" that comes with mobile phones (eg; Iphone , everyone wants one) ........... To be continued

Middle

In this part of the essay i will be explaining the different types of features mobile phones have and will conclude the impact they have on the different audiences(people) , give examples of recored impacts on peoples life , whether its made a difference , good or bad.

End

Conclude my results/findings and come to a definite verdict on the impact they have had on todays society and possibly include changes that could happen in the future.

Thankyou for reading , I know there is most lilely a few grammer errors within the above sentences, id also wish if anyone thinks that certain sentences should be included in different sections of the essays , id like them to say and maybe give advice, whilst complying with the rules

Kind Regards Lee Garnham

My SWOT Analysis

My Strengths include:

• Very Punctual
• Able to work to strict deadlines
• Time Management
• I can excel at a topic I enjoy
• Able to communicate and get my points across
• Experiment. eg; Changing code to see the result

My Weakness's include:

• Fairly poor English writing skills
• Sometimes find it hard to concentrate for long periods
• Lack a bit of self confidence
• Revision skills are not as good as they could be
• Handwriting is not brilliant
• Takes me longer to understand concepts

My Opportunities at University:

• Meet new people
• Higher my education
• Will provide me with better work related skills
• Will help improve my confidence

My Threats from going to University:

• Large student debt
• No Guarantee of a job after university
• Likely to be 3 years behind other peoples work experience wise , but may be more employable due to the qualification

Hi my Name is Lee Garnham i'm 22 and from Southend in Essex

I am currently started my course Computing at Anglia Ruskin University, Before this I was at Cecil Jones of which I was there for 3 years. Whilst at college i studied Avce Ict , Physics and Product Design. Whilst at college I was learning to drive, it took me a few attempts but I got there in the end, and have been driving for over 3 years claim free! . Between evening classes of which I went to to try and improve my English skills i had a few years out of study where i tried to work my way up in my current job without much luck.

The image below shows my Learning line