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Critical Reflection

The goal that I had set for this module was to improve my writing skills. Personally, I feel that I have achieved this goal as I have the chance to write a full technical report and the constantly updated blog posts for this module. Through the report and blog posts, I find myself being more critical of my grammar errors, sentence structure in the passage. Being critical, it allows me to be more careful in my writing skills.  I would like to use the skills that I have learned in this module into my daily life as it can constantly help me improved my ability in my writing.
The main challenge for our project was the writing of full technical report due to the busy schedule of our group members. As the three of us are different project groups in other modules, it was very difficult to meet up and discuss the project.  This resulted that our group to have lack of communication. Thus, we decided to split the workload eventually and later compile everything together. This leads to inconsistent work quality as our team has different ideas on the project.
From this incident, I have learned that having an effective communication is crucial in a group project. Without an effective communication, there will be misunderstanding, and blames will start to happen among the group.  From this experience, I learned that I should be more responsible and take the initiative person so as to prevent miscommunication within the group.  This course has taught me to always ensure that we have constant and effective communication between people.
In conclusion, I feel that this module has helped me to become a better writer and presenter in the future.

Comments

  1. Unknown7 April 2018 at 01:19

    Good job Serena! Glad to see you improving your writing. With practices, it makes your language writing close to perfect. Good knowing that you have made progress in learning, hope you will continue to further improve your language and sentence structure.

    Have this fighting spirit in you!

    Cheers, Roland

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  2. Unknown7 April 2018 at 23:17

    Good job Serena! Well every team have their problems and it is good that you saw it and did something about it.
    As a misunderstanding will stay a misunderstanding till one person put in effort to solve it. Hope this module helps in your interpersonal skills to solve the problem at hand and in the future.

    Colin

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  3. Brad Blackstone11 April 2018 at 23:11

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  4. Brad Blackstone11 April 2018 at 23:13

    Dear Serena,

    This is a fairly solid reflection. You state that you were able to achieve the goal you had set for yourself at the start of the module, though that was very broad. You also focus on the challenges that you and your project group faced.

    I do have a question or two though: How to resolve communication issues within a team? How can there be more consistency for work quality created when team members operate largely in silos?

    Also: Where do you go from here in terms of skills development? What do you feel you need to work on most?

    Whatever the case, I appreciate your sharing in this post and all the effort you made this term.

    Best wishes as you continue your learning journey!

    Brad

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  5. Unknown12 April 2018 at 00:41

    Thanks brad for your comment , the way to resolve communication issue is to talk it out so that there is no misunderstanding within a team. I think that in order to be more consistency for work quality is to meet up at least a few time to check on each other whether are we on the same page of the project.
    In term of skills development, i want to speak out to larger audience and I feel that the thing that i need to work on most is able to work in team better

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    1. Brad Blackstone12 April 2018 at 23:56

      Thanks very much for getting back to me on the questions I asked. I appreciate the effort. :)

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