At the beginning
of this ES1102 module, I labelled this module as a time consuming module. I had
this notion due to the fact that I attended ES1000 and it was not useful for
me. However, my mind and attitude towards the module changed as the weeks went
by. I started to enjoy my weekly lessons and found that they are generally
useful for me to improve my English.
We had been
taught on different skills, summary writing, paraphrasing, writing of reader
responses as well as writing of essays. Essay writing was never a foreign work
for me, since we do write essays when we were in junior college. However, for
our essay assignment in class, we were told to write an essay with no specific
questions given but just a general topic of Globalization. This allows us not
to be restricted and to think out of the box to come out with our own question
by doing research for it. I feel that this part of the module had been
essential for us in allowing us to think more and to do something that was different.
In addition to the writings work, I had also been taught on how to reference
well with the APA style. This was useful for me as I can use this skill in my
other modules as well.
Apart from the
assignments that we had in class, we had a blog, which we would post our
assignments onto it. The blogs has given a platform for us to learn and
communicate with our classmates. The blog had also given an opportunity to
interact with my classmates through commenting on their blogs and to learn from
one another through the feedbacks given. I strongly believe that it is crucial
for us to learn from one another, as learning is more than just the tutor and
myself. The blog also serves as our English portfolio where we could look back
to see how we had improved through out the whole semester, this is beneficial
for us as it would allows us to look back and learn from our mistakes.
Through the
different assignments that we had in class, I realize that I am still prone to
making a lot of common grammar mistakes in my writings. I feel that making
grammar mistakes is a major taboo when it comes to writing good essays. Even
with a good content and organization in my essay, having grammar mistakes would
clearly show my poor proficiency in my language. I had been doing grammar
assignments online and the grammar quiz provided by the course to improve my
grammar. I feel that through practices, my grammar mistakes can be further
reduced in the future.
In conclusion,
this module had been a beneficial and enjoyable one for me and I had learnt and
improved a lot for my writings.
Dear Li Tiang,
ReplyDeleteThank you for this detailed and generally clear reflection. You briefly describe your previous expectations, some of the activities from the course that you find useful and some of your tendencies in a self evaluation. I appreciate that effort.
Now you need to continue on the path of improvement. In Gibb’s Model of Reflection, there is space for an action plan for future development. Though you haven’t mentioned that here, I assume you have one. Your English use and writing in specific will improve step by step, but it will take an effort and a map of direction to expedite that.
Best of luck as you work toward your future goals!