Reflective Essay: Analyzing University Learning and Skill Development

This reflective essay provides an in-depth analysis of a student's university learning journey. The essay begins with an introduction to the various activities that contribute to a student's development, including classroom presentations, group work, and online learning, and how these activities enhanced writing, reading, and research skills. The essay then focuses on what was learned, such as grammar and sentence structure, and identifies areas for improvement, particularly in grammar and referencing. The student reflects on both positive outcomes and weaknesses encountered during coursework, emphasizing the need to improve grammatical accuracy and referencing skills. The conclusion summarizes the benefits of the coursework, highlighting plans for future improvement through increased focus in classroom presentations, library research, and collaborative learning with peers. The essay also emphasizes the importance of seeking guidance on referencing to improve the quality of research work.

REFLECTIVE
ESSAY

Contents
REFLECTIVE ESSAY....................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
What we learnt.............................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
What went right...........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
By starting my journey in university I had experienced various things that support a student
to develop their learning as well as knowledge which build up a base for a successful career.
There are number of activities performed in college as well as classroom that support students in
learning new things and developing their inter-personal skills (Petty, 2014). These activities
include classroom presentation, home work, group work, power point presentation, online
learning and reflection. Apart from this there are certain things which I had learn during my
classroom lectures which include how to use grammar, various methods to make sentences. It
also includes the procedure of sentence structure along with different way through which a
sentence can be structured that reflect its meaning in most appropriate manner. These classroom
activities supported me in developing my writing as well as reading skill which help in
performing research work so that the proper outcome and objective behind the research can be
achieved. By going through these activities I had experienced many things which help in
determining the area where I can perform better and various weakness that I required to rectify
for writing an essay. Apart from this class room activities as well as online learning also
supported in developing a thorough knowledge about the way to conduct a research for achieving
its objective and methods to create references (McKenney and Reeves, 2018). This support in
evidencing the research work and also support readers to determine the sources through which
information is being collected.
TASK 1
What we learnt
During my course work activities I came to known about various things that I had learned
and able to develop my skills in that area. During class room presentation I came to learned
about various mistakes that I had made during my previous research attempts. This support me in
enhancing my research skills by determining various ways to develop a research in an effective
manner that depict the solution to problem for which it has been conducted. Apart from this by
performing group work I become able to develop my reading as well as writing skills. This
supported me in making an effective use of tenses which is consider as a base for formation and
structuring of sentences. In addition to this my class room activities supported me in developing
a knowledge and understanding about the use of sentences. These activities also helped in

determining the common mistake that are made by students while framing a sentence that may
change the whole meaning (Kaçani, 2014). By determining these mistakes or errors I became
able to develop an understanding about the use of commas, full stop and apostrophes. So that the
sentences formulated by me should depict the exact meaning which I had assumed while writing
it. In addition to this work that was assigned by my lecturers for home also supported me in
developing my learning. As home work support in memorising the things that had learned during
classroom and other activities by performing similar task of classroom activity in a different way
(Núñez and et. al., 2015). This is the major source of exploring new things as student have more
time to search about new things and to complete its work in most efficient manner with more
evidences as compare to previous one.
TASK 2
What went right
Apart from all this positive results there are certain skills and activities which are lack
and I still required to improve in order to achieve the desired result from my coursework study.
Though I had attend my class room presentation and other activities that are performed related to
coursework but still I didn't able to fully develop my knowledge about grammar and sentence
structure. The sentences framed by me are not always right as there are various grammatical
mistakes and jargon words that affect the way I present my essay or research work. This is one of
the biggest mistake which required to be improve because even after presenting so much
information for evidencing the research actual objective not get achieved due to some
grammatical mistake (Cigankova, 2016). So this create a lots of problem because even after
performing work effectively my outcomes remain negative. In addition to this reference framing
skill also one of major weakness that I failed to develop during my course work. References is
consider as the major part of any research because it includes the name of sources through which
the data is being collected for evidencing the content of research. Therefore it is very essential
for me to improve my referencing skill in order to provide the evidence of information in most
effective manner that can be further used by reader to explore information of research in border
way from those sources.

CONCLUSION
This coursework proves to be very beneficial for me as I got the chance to enhance my
knowledge as well as creativity in writing. Throughout this study there certain positive as well as
negative aspect determined by me which presented the area that I required to improve in order to
perform better in future. From these one of the major weakness which I identified during
coursework is my grammatical mistake that I usually make while forming sentences. So if I get a
second chance then I will try to be more focused toward the class room presentation and also ask
questions regarding the issues and confusions I have at that time. Apart from this after having
class room presentation I will go to library for exploring the things that are explained by lecturer
during class. In addition to this I will explore information regarding content which I studied
during lecture with my friends so that we can share our understanding which further support in
identifying the new queries that we can face while practically applying those learning. So this
will help in identifying the major mistakes that I made during framing sentences which support
in eliminating these grammatical error in future. Apart from this improving my referencing
mistake I will take guidance from my teachers and also explore the methods of structuring
references over internet so that I can effectively present the evidence sources of my research
work.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Petty, T., 2014. Motivating first-generation students to academic success and college completion.
College Student Journal. 48(1). pp.133-140.
McKenney, S. and Reeves, T. C., 2018. Conducting educational design research. Routledge.
Kaçani, L., 2014. Grammatical mistakes of Albanian students in learning English as a foreign
language. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences. 5(19). p.323.
Núñez, J. C. And et. al., 2015. Relationships between perceived parental involvement in
homework, student homework behaviors, and academic achievement: differences
among elementary, junior high, and high school students. Metacognition and learning.
10(3). pp.375-406.
Cigankova, N., 2016. Grammatical expression of impersonality in LSP texts and translations.
Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences. 231. pp.99-106.