Critical Reflection

In my opinion, I have noticed slight improvement in areas of organisation and grammar through this course and this has helped improve the quality of my academic writing. The skills that I have acquired and benefited the most from this course were citing, summarizing and how to craft a good academic essay.

To put everything that I have learned from the course to the test, we were tasked to write a problem-solving essay on globalization. Through the process, researching for relevant materials and constructing the various paragraphs I was able to cite references with little or no problem. In addition, I was more aware of my writing and consciously tried to avoid mistakes such as using ‘would’ incorrectly by proofreading more often.

Though through the course I have improved my writing. However, I feel that more improvement can be made and this can only be done by practice, as the saying goes ‘Practice makes perfect’. Hence, with more essays coming my way during the three years in University I am sure I am able to hone this skill by referring to good essays written by fellow school mates as well as learning from the comments made on my essays by the tutors. In addition, I feel that I can improve or widen my vocabulary used in academic writing so that I am able to articulate my points more efficiently by identifying academic words in my readings.

Overall, I feel that this course has helped me with my next phase of my learning as I will be able to summarise and identify the main context of the readings more efficiently.