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
Personal reflection on performing research.................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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Assessment 2: Reflective Account
Introduction
Reflective report can be stated as a brief written explanation of experience as well as actions
which a person gets in a particular circumstance, event or situation. It is a piece of writing which
assist an individual to summarise critical reflection on subject (Shum, and et. al., 2016). It
involves information or data related to what went good, not good, learning of a person from the
complete experience etc. It is a reflective account report in which I present reflection on my
learning and experience during undertaking the overall module. This reflective account gives me
an opportunity to appraise my actions during the course of the research process along with
reflection on my skills and knowledge. This reflective account is also helpful in determining the
efficacy of my engagement with others and enable me in recognizing my own areas of
development.
Main Body
Personal reflection on performing research
I am a student learning in the module named as “Mental Wealth: Professional Exchange and
Applied Research”. I am reflecting on the experience which I gain by undergoing the module. I
had assigned the responsibility to develop a proposal poster for the research project by my tutor.
The topic of my proposal is financial performance analysis of steel companies of United
Kingdom. I have no knowledge regarding how to develop proposal and prepare a poster
presentation as I have never done it before. I lose my confidence level at that time and thought
that I cannot did it. But the best part is that I had to perform that task in the group and my group
members was very helpful. They helped me a lot and motivate me to do the assigned task
appropriately (Johns, 2017).
In order to perform study on the topic, I had to search information regarding the companies
and their financial performance in the market. But, I did not have any knowledge about which
source as authenticate and I can use in my research and which is not. I faced difficulties at the
time of searching data on the topic. But my tutor taught me that the source which is not older
than 5 or 10 years can be used in the research. This learning from the classroom helped me a lot
at the time of researching on the topic. I faced difficulties because of my less effective research
skills but, with the assistance of learning which I get during the module, I enabled to collect data
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