Reflection

I have personally learnt a lot of things in the ES1102 class. The things I have learnt is not just kept within the tutorials, instead, it could be brought to my other modules. It have helped me analyse questions better and made me more aware of my grammar. Even though my grammar is still not perfect, but I can safely say I have less grammatical errors now as compared to the past before my ES1102 tutorials.

With ES1102, it has widened my content and helped me structure my essays better. With extensive research and reading through many readings for the topics, it has broadened my perspectives and taught me to question what was given to me instead of accepting everything I am given. Reading articles given in class and the class discussion have helped me improve my language. Reading articles gave me exposure to how I can write essays in an analytical manner since there are always two sides of the stories, while class discussions have made me verbalise my questions and thus helping me with the structuring of sentences.

My weaknesses are still my bad grammar and writing long sentences making it sound lengthy and draggy. I will need to practice more on my grammar by doing more grammar exercises. I feel that the text-editing is useful in testing our grammar, even though it could be quite demoralising at the start. I think I could read more to be able to better phrase my sentences. I could also extend my vocabulary list so that I can shorten my sentences with the suitable words, instead of elaborating and being lengthy just to bring across a point.

Audio and written feedback were really useful and it’s a good way to get feedback. I would listen to the audio feedback and look at the written feedback at the same time. This allows me to make rough changes at the same time and allow me to better understand the areas I did wrongly and require improvement.

I think it would help if I had audio and written feedback in my modules as it could help me improve on my mistakes and it also helps me identify the more commonly made errors in my writings. I should learn to be more aware of my grammar so that I can make less mistakes instead of realising it after the work is marked (which is always too late).

Reflection: Learning Journey

After A levels, I took up a job in University Town, Cinnamon College, as a causal temp staff. I helped out with management of the facilities of the building, following contractors around. It was quite a fruitful experience as skills and knowledge I learnt through the staffs there and contractors were practical and useful in my everyday life. Also, after working on defects, students would thank us and there would be a sense of accomplishment.

However, there were times when I was not organised and was not able to ensure that the contractors complete their job. Resulting in a delay in the completion of the job causing a panic before the start of the new semester before the students went back to study.

Having worked there for several months, I grew interested in this field subsequently. Thus, leading me to study my current course of study, Projects and Facilities Management. With the things I learn from this course, I seek to improve myself so that I can contribute more to the society, working more efficiently and in a more organised manner. This was a learning journey that had brought me to where I am now in NUS.