2008-1-SSK13.Essay.2

Second/Final Essay: A Reflective Essay

This essay gives you the opportunity to reflect upon what you have learned in the past 12 weeks. It is intended to be a formal version of a journal of your experiences, thoughts and understandings of the Unit. You might choose to focus on one aspect of the course and give a detailed assessment of the process: telling the reader what state of knowledge you brought to the course; what your expectations were of that aspect; how effective you thought the information and learning process was; how your interaction with other students influenced your experience; and how the teaching affected your experience. Alternatively you can reflect on a number of aspects of the course or give an overview of your whole experience. This does not have to be a specifically academic piece of work to the extent that you will be supporting your point-of-view with the view of an expert; but it will be academic in the sense that when you are discussing and offering a critique of the unit you should support your observations with examples from the unit and/or from interactions that you have had, either with students, the teaching staff or the content. Nonetheless feel free to bring in academic material where you thought the Readings/text was either good or bad. In these cases you will be referencing the material you cite. You are also free to refer to other material from the wider Readings that you thought were more relevant or useful; or offer suggestions from your own research.

You are free to write it in any of the writing styles that we have covered in the course (i.e. journalistic, blog, as a Facebook entry, media release or academic).

Write a 1000 word essay describing the understandings that you have built up in the last 12 weeks of undertaking Learning and Communication Behaviour.