As my module has come to an end after eleven weeks, I am going to consolidate what I learnt during my module and the flaws and improvements I have made.
I have consistently scored good marks and grades throughout my module.
Firstly, I learnt how to do critical reading. This skill is useful as I am able to retract the main idea being conveyed by the writer from chunks of words. I have to read through the text thrice - first to skim, second is to annotate and third to evaluate. Every text in my module has thesis and main points.
Secondly, we did a number of essays - illustrative, division-classification, process analysis and compare-contrast argument-persuasion. Except for process analysis, we always did outlines of each essay and present them to class to get criticisms from the professor and class. After that, we did the full essay draft for our peers to review and to address any uncertainties that we had. Finally, we handed in the final essay with the cover page attached.
Thirdly, we learnt grammar like sentence structure, logical fallacies and some more that I couldn't remember. We also did four journals which I enjoyed doing because they helped me consolidate my thoughts about a certain issue and organize them well in my writing.
These are the strengths and weaknesses of my essays and journals:
(+)
clear structure and thesis
structure is relevant and justification is relevant
journal #3 an interesting topic
(-)
more examples to explain how and why (more details)
last body para to cohere with assertion in conclusion to give more clarity (ambiguity has to be eliminated)
grammar editing
but journal #3 could be better if the response were more succinct
All in all, I really learnt a lot from this module and I benefit a lot from it. Thank you professor K for being a patient guide throughout the module and for helping me improve. ^_^
No comments:
Post a Comment