As far back as completing our first reflections towards this module, I have been able to see the benefits of reflective academic pieces as well as keeping an e-portfolio in order look back on our first year at Writtle. This e-portfolio has enabled me to make detailed evaluations of my current strengths and weaknesses in each particular subjects, it has also allowed me to begin in developing a professional display whereby all my work is collated for future employers. According to educationist and practitioners of writing, reflections are considered to be an essential feature in student portfolios (Kathpalia et al 2010). The reflective aspects of my portfolio have enabled me to pick out my strengths and weaknesses enables further development …show more content…
Through undertaking practical reflections such as our mock ospe and animal handling skills, I have been able to critically analyse my strengths and weaknesses in equine and canine practical skills and allow me to build on them for the upcoming ospe exams in …show more content…
This was particularly noticeable in my mock ospe reflection whereby I picked up on the fact that nerves play a large part in the end result of an exam, however, this highlighted the importance of preparation and practice towards the final exam in order to build my confidence in key areas of improvement in my handling skills. This process of action planning was particularly motivating and prompted me to tackle my weaknesses head on. It became apparent throughout my work, that I lacked the required practical and academic skills relating to equine as opposed to other animals, particularly in both the mock ospe whereby although I passed the equine subsection, there was a lot more to improve on than the canine aspect. This was similar for the nutrition assignment whereby our overall grade was affected due to having less background knowledge in horse feeds and using internet sources rather than journals. In order to improve in the weaknesses found between these reflections, I plan to undertake more equine based work experience in order to improve my handling skills whilst paying special attention to the BHS standards, I also aim to take time to further read around my subjects in more depth whilst using a variety of sources including books and
From the beginning, the first writing project assigned in class, a proposal, exposed to me the essential tools a writer needs to connect to the proper audience and defend my stance on the reform proposed. Overall, the course not only stressed the importance of drafts, but of peer review and instructor feedback as well; therefore, strengthening my knowledge
Thomas Osborne opens the narrative with a description of himself up very late at night trying to write a paper. Sadly, he’s been at it for four days, and unfortunately he seems to have writer’s block. Osborne’s personal experience with a first draft that he deems “failed” due to the writer’s block. Also, his realization of his personal writing style and how he uses it to his advantage versus conforming to a more normal style of writing occurs later in the selection. Looking through the lens of a reflective analysis perspective, it’s easy for me to find similarities to Osborne through my writing style, personal experiences, and through analysis I better understood
‘Helping students meet the challenges of academic writing’ by Fernsten and Reda is an interesting study how reflective writing practices can be useful for marginalized students, who are struggling with “negative writer self-identity. The possible causes according to Fernsten & Reda are, “issues such as race, class and gender that are marginalized factors for many basic writers”, in addition to the expectations of the dominant academic culture. However, even though Fernsten & Reda illuminated the ‘potential conflicts’ within the academic world, they have failed to provide conclusive evidence that supports their argument regarding their solution. Their reliance on dated research that provides a one sided historical perspective, may no longer accurately reflect current socio/economic issues. In addition, education has been evolving to an inclusive curriculum approach, as immigrated children enter the school system in record numbers. “Persons obtaining legal permanent status in the U.S from the year 2000-2010 are roughly eleven million” (Homeland Security,pg.10/2010). Fernsten & Reda’s confidence of their own limited teaching practices without legitimate comparables from an empirical study leads to their underlying assumptions about the true effectiveness of reflective writing strategies and the causes they believe are associated to a student’s socio/economic background.
Today, we are writing an essay. Its content is about reflection and rhetorical analysis. What to reflect it? Reflections on what we learn. We have studied English for a long time. For our international students, from primary school, we learn the content and form of learning is similar to our own native language. When we learn to basic knowledge of English after. We began to learn new things. This knowledge is to make us more skilled use of the English language. So we started to learn writing. In the writing of a lot of knowledge, they like us to write our own language to write an essay. We need to improve our writing skills with a lot of writing skills. These writing skills can be a plus for our writing. It allows people to join them more interested.
My interest in and understanding of the field of veterinary science has only been heightened with the time I have spent on various valuable work experience placements over recent years, especially during the four weeks in small and mixed animal practices in England, Wales, and Ireland. Spending time in these four very different practices allowed me to observe a wide range of routine and emergency
My development as a writer has flourished throughout this semester. The first week of this fall semester started out with writing responses from our readings in the textbook. Looking back through and analyzing my reading responses at the semester to now; I noticed a substantial improvement in not only my grammar skills, but also my summarizing, and in-depth studying of writing adeptness. Another way I have progressed this semester is the vocabulary of my writing has significantly improved and become more scholarly. Another advancement I noticed was that the content of my work has matured, along with my organizational adeptness.
I wrote short stories, poems, and articles; all centering on an idea of deep relevance and striking resonance. I experimented with various styles and numerous techniques with the majority of them proving to be useless and unimportant. However, despite these seemingly futile grasps at concrete steps towards amelioration and evolution as a writer, all of this experimentation paid off when it finally led me to the one particular style of writing that I enjoyed immensely: essays. After discovering my hidden talent for creating formal compositions and literary pieces, my writing had improved vastly. This was because I finally gained the crucial self-analytical skills required to be able to identify my strengths and weaknesses and break through this obstacle which had obstructed my path to
For the study, writing a reflective learning journal helps me: bring together theory and practice and yield better understanding of the course material while for my development as a successful and independent learner, it helps me: See my strength and weakness
In conclusion I believe that I have developed both skills working with others and improving your own learning and performance. But I need to work on these skills so I can use them in a more effective way; and I also recognise that I will not develop these in a short period of time. I will have to work on the strategies I have mentioned throughout the assignment in order to improve these skills.
...g with Prof. Binder. Writing this final piece has allowed me to synthesize my experiences but I found it harder to reflect and make deep connections during the semester. I would like to explore and make a plan for a continuous, challenging, connected and contextualized reflection process as Collier and Williams suggest. I am determined to develop a more disciplined reflection process for my work in communities as a learner and as an individual.
Hence, this technique has helped me a lot to become a proficient writer, which really assisted me to understand and care about the real world issues; how there are so many problems in the world that yet not have been solved. After continuation of some extra research on my topic, reflection, and different exercises on The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander novel, I was finally able to understand that I want to learn more about the topic on prison sentences which led me to research about my topic broadly, helped me select those sources that interested me a lot and helped me to develop more as a writer. A main purpose of this e-portfolio is to demonstrate four different areas such as my Composing Process, Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Multi-modal Communication Process through two different projects, Revision Process with multiple drafts, and additional resources that I used outside the class time and Transfer Process, how this course has helped and shaped me become a writer that I am
Most people question the purpose of writing a journal. People who write a journal keep it to fulfill a basic human need – “self expression and reflection” (Sagan 1). Writing is known as one of the easiest ways to express your personality and who you truly are. You can write in a journal without having anyone judging you – unless you chose to have someone else read it of course. You may reflect on your writing while you are writing your journal/diary entries. Then, once you have expressed your thoughts, you can even go back to your past entries to reflect on what you have said before. Reflecting on your writing can help you develop as a person. It helps you think through a situation and possibly solve it. Reflections help generate ideas for how to improve as an individual. But really, it’s entertaining to re-read past memories and see how much...
I believe it is important for any student who wants to do their best in a class to take a moment to evaluate their own work to determine the rate their writing is progressing and how they can continue to advance their writing. When I looked through my own work I asked myself “what have I learned this semester?” and “what do I still need to learn in order to improve my writing?”. Answering both these questions will help me with my last step of my self-evaluation, developing a plan to learn new skills.
This English class has prepared me not only for academic writing, but also for writing in my future career. I will continue to practice my writing skills by reading and writing more papers. Based on my collection of essays in this portfolio, I am confident that I can pass the class and receive Clear
I am keen to support this organisation and have several pets of my own. This experience has enabled me to understand the level of commitment required when fostering an animal. I spend time with her regular every day supporting her development to become more sociable. This should ensure that she has a successful placement in a permanent home. By doing this it has helped me appreciate that doing jobs and work is not only for the set times, it has to be completed and researched into after hours. I will be able to apply this to my university life as I will have to look into topics before and after lectures and group projects.