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27 July 2008

My final say for this semester~ The Final Entry
While performances are just temporary achievement; attitudes are permanent and unarguably the most important asset for all people. This is what I learnt throughout the semester, strongly supported by evidences from real life examples. Life changes every semester, every day, every hour, every minute but hopefully not every second. I begin the first day, full with energy. However, influences around me tend to manipulate that driving force. Sometimes, it might slow us down a little but in many cases, positive pressures from seniors such as parent, lecturers charged us up no end. Proudly, I shall say I did quite okay for this long semester and will leave the rest for whichever god up there.

This semester, the toughest subject has to be critical analysis. It was critically hard as in understanding the primary idea. We started by analyzing it deeply with course guide. Then, the lecturer gave us samples as assistance. Lastly, we look for seniors’ help to recognize it better. Finally, several practices paid off as we were able to submit all the works assigned on time. Although the learning process was tough, I improved my language from these extended reading.
Research based Group presentation is the one I will never forget. I shall disregard the route of conducting survey, preparing speech and presenting. However, what I bear in mind is the day the lecturer took my speech from me while rehearsal. It actually leads to my independence day because I presented without memorizing or reading from prepared speech. In the end of the day, my group did fantastic and I am happy to play a part in this group. Hopefully, we can stick with each other for future group assignments.

The next sweet sub-coursework was writing a weekly journal. I shall describe this assignment as interesting. Here, I can express feeling on the course and receive feedback from the lecturer. Normally, I saved the positive comment and ignored the negative one. Although some people think this was a waste of time, I strongly disagree with them as I think, journal entries can keep us updated occasionally. The journal started with, you look rather down for this semester. Hopefully, it will end another way.

The two sub-courses I dislike is listening test and academic essay. For listening test, the pronunciation was fast and the slang is different. I think it is unfair and Oxford Brookes University should imply Malaysian’s slang tape recording for the future listening test. As for academic essay, I find it quite time consuming. We need to look for reliable articles, write an outline, drafts, reference list and lastly submit the final version. Time, therefore was what I concerned the most while writing this essay. In order to complete both academic essays and other assignments from different subjects, I plan out timetable for my assignments. I find it worked well but still, discipline is one factor we must always apply in life. Without that, there is no point for having millions timetables.
To sum up everything, I think Eng113 has done so much good for us. The way it was conducted, the syllabus and the organization were good. The similarities compared to Eng112 make students life easier and relaxing. Moreover, students seem to be more familiar and prepared to handle all tasks.

To conclude, I would like to thank the lecturer for guiding us into the next level. I knew the whole group of pupils will miss her definitely, maybe. Also, I enjoyed the day with all the classmates. Although the aunty group is not smart a student, the class will be real boring without their lame jokes.

An analysis on Ms Shanti shows positive progress but still, there ‘are’ instead of ‘is’ spaces for improvement. For instance, she scolded harshly sometimes to remind students so that they do not repeat their misbehavior. Well, the result is usually promising but most students obey as they fear for their grades, sadly not that they have learnt. For me, maybe because of my soft heart, I think, nobody will learn from bad feelings but they only learn with proper guidance. The tough part is, it takes another level for lecturer to control students just with advises. However, nothing is impossible.

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