Reflection of the writing and editing process

I would say I have learnt many things that were taught since the first tutorial till now. Firstly, I learnt the way to structure a reflection. Before this course, I had no clue on how to go about writing a reflection from scratch. Secondly, I realised the common grammatical mistakes that I have made over and over again throughout my academic years. Lastly and most essentially, I acquired greater understanding on structuring an essay and a summary, which is extremely useful in helping me in other modules as well. These skills will serve me good in the long run as they are relevant in various situations that may arise in the future.

For academic writing, I improved my content through the recognition of the need to create clear and concise topic sentences. Furthermore, language is less of an issue now as I have cut down on my common grammatical errors. The structure of the academic writing has improved the greatest as I am now clear on the basic outline every piece of academic writing should possess.

It would be great if we can continue working on writing outlines for essays as I feel it is a good exercise to practice critical thinking and evaluation on more topics of discussion. In my opinion, my weakness lies in my ability to write good topic sentences. More often than not, I spend a lot of time on thinking of ways to shape these topic sentences.

For the comments on the summary and reader response, I felt that I had made proper changes for every comment that was given. The comments given were very clear on the mistakes that I had made and changes were done without much pondering over the correctness of those changes.

For the accuracy of my self-grading, I would say I was accurate because of the similar grades I scored for each section. The challenge was to gauge a mark for content because it seems subjective to the reader.

The effectiveness of the audio and written feedback given on for assignments was amazing. I was surprised at how well the whole video was able to transmit a clear explanation because it was a first experience. More importantly, the audio feedback actually acts as a complement for the written feedback. Without it, the usefulness of the written feedback would be severely undermined. The written feedback might even make us more confused as the written comments were only giving a general representation of what needs to be corrected. We can also repeat the playback of the video if we were unsure on a certain comment mentioned, at our own pace. Therefore, on the overall, the audio and written feedback is a good way to get feedback. I would definitely benefit from such movie format file feedback in my other courses.