Critical Reflection of the Essay Process

Writing an essay has never been so different. I used to write essay without flow of thoughts and no proper structure. I had no idea how to make a start, flow between sentences or even paragraphs. I always had difficulties meeting the required number of words and part of the reason was my lack of depth in vocabulary.

It was an interesting experience over the past weeks, from writing the topic to the conference session. It gave me an idea how I should write my essay first before I start writing. The introduction to citation was an overwhelming experience for me because I always thought citation was only a simple copy and paste of the weblinks that I have gotten the information from. It was more in depth than I thought. On a side note, I can find all the information about citation online.

Also, the evaluation from my peers and also evaluation of my peers' article helps me to identify and learn from mistakes. I personally feel that evaluation is one of the key moments where we can learn. As mentioned in my first blogpost, I always felt that getting a grade for our writing will not make us good writers. Instead, we need to constantly review and reflect on our writing and get advice from others in order to make improvements. Therefore, I really appreciate the evaluation from my peers. However, I feel that the thought of me evaluating works of others always seem wrong. Honestly, I feel that my vocabulary, grammar and many other aspects were inferior to others hence it is pretty hard for me to judge their papers.

To sum all up, I felt pretty confident after I have done the essay and after going through the conference session, I thought I have made some improvements since I started writing in this course.