Reflection
Reflection Paper
Section One
The survey questioned students’ motivation for studying management.
In almost all cases the students thought it would lead to good employment prospects.
The survey analyzed the students’ enthusiasm and motivation towards the management studies. It was concluded from a survey that most of the students considered the management good for their career. They believe that it will enhance their job opportunities in the future.
Customers were interviewed about whether or not they liked the new product.
The results showed that about 60% preferred the old product.
The customers were asked about the new product that whether they liked or disliked the new product. However, the results of interview revealed that the 60% people prefer the old product.
The workplace survey showed the employees did not like the in-service training courses.
More research needs to be done to find out the types of course that the employees prefer.
The survey of workplace revealed that the in-service training course did not like by the employees. The research will analyze the preferable courses by the employee. It will also help to get aware of the courses preferable by the employee.
The video-recordings of the student teachers’ classes helped them to identify problems in their teaching.
More research needs to be done about the use of video as a teacher-training tool.
The video recordings helped the teachers to understand the problems and issues in their teaching. The research required analyzing the applications of video as a tool and medium for teaching and training.
Section 2
The article about the crisis management contains the strong usage of reporting verbs. The authors used the reporting verbs on various occasions while writing in the article. The authors used reporting verbs to give credit to other authors for their research and writing. They used them to emphasize the importance of the research and delivered their message. The usage of tense are mostly in present tense but while referring to any case the usage of past tense can also be found. The authors in this report have precisely used strong, neutral and weak reporting verbs. To present the content formally equivalent and to make the entire topic more descriptive and precise authors used reporting verbs to make the information more understandable and clear. The other main reason to use the reporting verb method is that authors wanted to assert the importance of the hypotheses or the research which was done by other authors in the past. Therefore, with the help of strong usage of reporting verbs tried to stress on the points stated by previous authors.
Section 3
2.1. In this part of the personal reflection you will write a brief summary of the changes (main) that you made to the reworked Assignment 1, 2, 3 and 4 above.
2.2. 2.2.1. Thinking about the course content, what were the most challenging aspects covered in the course for you and why do you think they were challenging?
I believe that the most challenging aspects that I covered in this course are that I found out various different and new ways of writing one sentence in to a different style. Although it was most difficult thing for me, it can be said that it enhanced my writing skills and learning style. 2.2.2. Thinking about the course content, what were the least challenging aspects covered in the course for you and why do you think they were the least challenging?
As I have used the same IMRD structure for my Arabic language course. Thus, it was easy for me to complete my work in this course by using IMRD structure. 2.2.3. Did you find yourself using the knowledge or skills that you gained in this course for other courses. Elaborate on your answer with reasons.
Yes it will not be incorrect to state that the knowledge or skills that i gained in this course helped me in various ways. It simply improved my reading skills and helped me to understand what I read. Therefore, my writing skills also get improved and it found it easy to write anything on any topic.
2.2.4. Do you think you will find the knowledge and skills gained on this course useful for your future plans. Elaborate on your answer with reasons.
I believe that the knowledge or skills that I gained in this course will reflect in my future learning plans. The things that I learned in this course will be reflected through my writing and knowledge and it will help me to flourish in my future with right knowledge and writing styles. 2.2.5. Comment on any other aspects of the course, not perhaps covered above, that you wish to reflect upon
I believe that through this course my management skills are also improved. I got to know that how to manage things if it is gone wrong. I stopped panicking on my mistakes and learned that I should work hard to bring improvement in me and my work simply by correcting things. Moreover, practicing again and again to improve writing skills is a thing that needs patience and I have gained it. Thus, I successfully focused on language and writing mistakes and corrected them by reworking on them.
Reference
McCray, J. P., Gonzalez, J. J., & Darling, J. R. (2011). Crisis management in smart phones: the case of Nokia vs Apple. European Business Review, 23 (3), 240-255.
