Reflective Account on Performing Research

MENTAL WEALTH: PROFESSIONAL
EXCHANGE AND APPLIED RESEARCH
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Contents
Assessment 2: Reflective Account..................................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Own reflection on performing research.......................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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Assessment 2: Reflective Account
Introduction
Reflective account is referred as the brief written description of actions and experience that
an individual gets in a particular situation, event or circumstances. It involves information about
what went well, not well, an individual learns from the overall experience etc. This is a reflective
report which I developed on my own experience and the learning which I get by performing the
research (Gibson, and et. al., 2017). This reflective report provides me with an opportunity to
evaluate my actions throughout the process of research and reflecting on my skills, behaviour
and knowledge. It helps me in determine the effectiveness of my own engagement with others
and assist me in identifying my own skills and development areas.
Main Body
Own reflection on performing research
I am a student learning in the module and presenting the reflection on the experience gained
by me while performing poster presentation. While undertaking the module, I was assigned with
a task by my tutor in which I need to developed a poster presentation on the research process in
group. At that time, I had no experience about how to prepare a poster and I felt very nervous.
My confidence level was also low at that time one thing constantly roaming in my mind that how
will I prepare that presentation as I had no knowledge about it. But, my tutor and group members
motivate me and insist me to do that which improves my confidence level and I go ahead with it.
The topic on which I need to develop poster presentation was "importance of relationship
marketing to attract new customers using social media" and I need to perform the study on
BMW. The main objectives of this investigation was to understand the concept of relationship
marketing, its benefit for business and its importance in attracting new customers by using social
media (Johns, 2017).
For performing this investigation in an appropriate way, I needed to search on different
sources in order to collect information on the topic. My research skills were not good due to
which I faced many problems in collecting the data on the topic. I have no knowledge about the
authenticated and unauthenticated sources along with which source I need to consider and which
is not. But, in collecting the information, my group members helped me a lot. They told me that
the source which is older than 10 years is not appropriate to include in the study. By the help of
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