Looking back in retrospect of the past 9 weeks, I realized I had improved so much more in terms of my writing skills as well as developing a better understanding of proper grammar usage. Definitely, the course of the past 9 weeks had made me realise how much more I had to learn, but also showing areas where I had improved on. I had not only learnt how to extract important information from sources and apply the skills I picked up along the way, but also the significance of group/peer evaluation. Through the practice of peer evaluation and group work that Dr Cook has implemented, I am able to learn from the mistakes that my peers made, as well as learning from the errors that my peers had pointed out to me. There is no doubt that it was a beneficial 9 weeks, however I believe the journey of learning does not end here.
For week 10-12, I would probably like to learn more about evaluation/critical response of problems/solutions in an article as I know I am much weaker in this aspect. I am fairly confident of my use of language, albeit with some room for improvement, but I do need to work on proper usage of SVA and transitional conjunctions. As I tend to make errors like incoherent transitions, it is important that I work on this area and if appropriate, I would like Dr Cook and my peers to aid me in improving.
Going through the comments on the summary and reader's response, I was enlightened as to where had I went wrong and corrected the appropriate mistakes. There were no confusion as to the errors I made because I understood what was wrong. When asked to rate my grade for content, organisation and language, the only aspect which disappointed me was the organisation. It was worse than I expected it to be, however, I am still working on the organisation to a better flow of ideas for my future academic writings.
I think audio and written feedback is an excellent way to get feedback. I understand that this may be a very tedious process for the assessor/marker, Dr Cook, but this form of academic feedback beats just ticks, crosses and underlined phrases on our piece of paper. The audio and written feedback not only provides us personalized commentaries on our writings, but also the ability to playback and see where did we go wrong. It is indeed a very useful tool and I believe it would help us significantly if we had this form of academic feedback in our other courses.
