Sunday, November 10, 2013

Critical reflection (edited)

Essay writing has always been a dreaded activity for me since the early years of my academic career. Whenever I've been assigned such a task,  the first thing that occurs in my mind would be having my paper plagued with red error annotations, returned to me after grading. To be honest, these worries of mine eventually become a reality. The annotations usually consisted of a variety of grammatical errors, errors which I've failed to correct over the many years of writing.

At the beginning of this module, I was still plagued with the problems that I've faced when I write my essays. However, over the 12 weeks of lessons, there has been a significant change in the frequency of errors in my writing, fewer mistakes are being made. Through peer review, group discussion and the online grammar exercises, I am able to better identify the mistakes I make when I write. Reviewing work between classmates helped me to realise the errors that I often overlook, teaching me to be more conscious of my grammar when i write.

In conclusion, I think that my greatest improvement in my writing, is definitely my use of grammar. Although currently, much improvement is still needed, I believe that by putting more conscious effort into correcting my own errors. In the future, I will try to make use of the grammar notes given to me in this course, so as to better understand the types of mistake which I frequently make. Eventually I hope to completely correct this errors, and be able to write a better essay.

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  1. Essay writing has always been a dreadWF activity for me since the early years of my academic career. Whenever I've been assignVF such a task, the first thing that occurs in my mind would be having my paper plagued with red error annotations, returned to me after grading. To be honest, these worries /always turned to reality Rephrase/. The annotations usually consistVF/T of a variety of grammatical errors, errors which I've failed to correct over the many years of writing.

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