Critical Reflection

Over the past 12 weeks, attending the effective communication module had essentially benefitted me for both my university life and potentially my future working life. The first take away was writing my email with more courtesy and formality. My email used to be poorly written without proper thoughts on courtesy.

Next will be regarding plagiarism. Being a content creator as a hobby, I am always worried about plagiarism as I may also be doing compilations and edits to better enhance my work. Having lesson on plagiarism effectively cleared my doubts to allow me to make contents with less worries.

Reader Response was one of the parts where I struggled with the most in this module. Apart from being unfamiliar with APA-style Citation, I was not able to fully understand the article without additional reading on other related articles. However, with guidance from my lecturer, I managed to gradually understand the article and was able to write a response based on my readings.

Working on the technical report had taught me the importance of working in a team. Brainstorming of ideas are more effective with peer feedbacks and contribution which helps everyone to generate more and better ideas. Working on the report had exposed me to work with unfamiliar people in which I believe will be a norm in the future. With this experience, I hope that I will be able to utilize this experience to form better interpersonal relationships with colleagues.

Lastly, being able to do presentation in front of the whole cohort is a rare opportunity presented to me. As I go through more presentations, I gradually become more confident and less anxious during my presentation. Comparing my peer teaching presentation to the team presentation, I seen improvements in my presentation. I hope I will do well for the presentation showcase. 

Analytical Reflection

Having not presenting for a long period of time, it felt like my first time presenting back in Republic Polytechnic. I am very nervous, full of thoughts and feeling very uneased. Having a mock presentation, I had received critical feedbacks to polish my skill for my actual presentation.

For my first aspect, my presentation skill, as the saying goes “Practices make perfects”, giving a perfect presentation is close to impossible for someone whom had not been doing it abundantly in recent time. A couple of week ago, I was giving my first presentation in SIT. I am consistently not doing well for my whole presentation. I wasn’t familiar with the contents. Hence, I was not able to present well as I forget my memorized sentences, lesson learnt. However, during my mock presentation. I am familiar with my presented contents. Even though I was not presenting it smoothly, I know my stuff. To improve on this, I will need to practice rigorously. I plan to at least present it for at least three times a day to improve on my skill and confidence.

Another aspect that I could improve on is my physical communications. Based on my feedback, my presenting posture for the mock presentation is bad. For a tall guy like me, I must bend down a lot to fit in many places like going through doorways of MRT trains and some low ceiling areas. I may had developed an unhealthy habit of bending my back unconsciously. Having poor body posture during presentation may convey a message of poor confidence. To improve, I am stretching my back regularly to reduce strain to allow myself to maintain a good healthy posture. I would also ask my friends to remind me of my posture if I unconsciously return to the poor posture.