Critical Reflection

1. Module Learning

At the start of the module, the goals that I have set out to achieve is to sharpen my English writing skills to aid myself in the future once I graduate and to be able to receive feedback appropriately. Since week 1, I have gone through many different forms of exercises that give me the opportunity to achieve my goals. The first form of exercise is to be able to write the investigation report and also the reader summary. From the exercises, I was able to practice my English writing skills and also to figure out my style of writing. After writing, there was a peer review that was held in class which then, it also gave me the opportunity to practice on how to improve myself through feedback. I personally feel that receiving feedback from peers is an important skill as it will always be a challenge to be constructive when the peer evaluation is going on. After weeks of practice, I realized that I have reached my goals. Besides reaching my stated goals, I have also learned how to write more proficiently, to be able to craft a report professionally and lastly, to be able to siphon out important information from an article more efficiently

2. Project Learning

During the process of my project work, I realized and experienced first hand the difficulty of researching articles to prove our point. My team invested a lot of our time to search up on articles or journals that turns out not to be related or it seemed promising at the start but eventually, the article veered off in a different direction. Through this journey, I actually realized that writing a report is definitely going to be a challenge, but if I am able to look for the journals that are related more efficiently, it will surely ease the workload on writing a report. After the completion of the report, the next challenge that I faced was to identify the important points to go on to the presentation slides. It was tough as all the points seem so important that I have to add everything in, but after going through and siphoning out the important points, I was able to minimize the content and thus, making my presentation points concise and straightforward without all the unnecessary data. 

Presentation to me was the less stressful part of the project as I was given the exposure since young to practice talking to a large group of people. The feedback that I received was that I spoke too quickly and monotonously. To practice, I recorded myself presenting as per normal and I understood what was actually happening. As I have a deep voice, speaking monotonously makes my presentation really boring. To improve myself, I will use any chance to present as I can learn how to moderate my words and also vary my tone as I speak. 

3. Presentation Showcase

During the presentation showcase, there were a few groups that really caught my attention. Firstly, it was their strong start to the presentation. There was one group which started off really well as they also spoke fluently. The presenter spoke really clear and he also paused between his sentence so as to moderate the speed of his presentation. Next, the other group that caught my attention was their slides. Their slides were really nicely done and it aided their explanation to their proposed solution. In conclusion, for a presentation to be successful, it is important to have well-designed slides to help the audience to understand their presentation and also a presenter that is able to moderate their speech and tone.