Critical Reflection

The Next Stage of My Learning

Essay writing has always been a bane for me, as English is not my mother tongue and personally it is hard for me to express my ideas. Furthermore, the writings have to be academic, and unfortunately I do not have the necessary vocabulary for it. Academic writing also has to include citations and references, and one cannot simply copy a passage, as it is an act of plagiarism, and therefore has to rephrase. These are foreign practices for me, and I need instructions to be able to complete my university level assignments which highly focus on writing assignments.

This course has provided the necessary base for academic writing. For example, I have learned that it is not enough to just replace words with their synonyms in paraphrasing and I was also taught how to cite properly. As a result, for two of my essay assignments, I can avoid being charged with plagiarism.

There are still a lot of areas that I need to improve on, such as I need to be able to do more researches in order to create essays with contents of higher quality and learn more academic words. These need time and continuous practice, which I intend to do in the future by reading more books and academic journals and practising to write with more academic lexicons.