Michelle Teh's reflection

When I first received the notification of this English Assessment, I was agonized. A visual/ multimedia text, a complete essay, two partial essays, and a reflection blog were the given tasks. There should be a compare and contrast, research, persuasive, reaction writing- I was confused on arranging them. We were then asked to pick a topic that is related to technology. Another confusion struck me. I totally had no idea of which technology I was going to grab, but at the end I decided iPod would not be bad. Along with that decision, I managed my writings. Here is how it went: complete essay as a persuasive text, 1^st partial essay as a compare and contrast, 2^nd as a research, and visual or multimedia text as an opinion.

My work started with the complete essay. I submitted the complete essay draft on June 3^rd 2009. The second draft was the 1^st partial essay; submitted on the same day as the complete essay. Luckily, I handed in another 1^st partial essay draft on June 4^th. My 2^nd partial essay draft was submitted the day after (June 4^th 2009). I didn’t get any chance on submitting any more drafts. One thing to take note people, be steady with your choice or ended up procrastinating with several options. It was devastating and that happened to me. Arranging for the academic writings had got me into a stressful foresee on what I’m going to do for few weeks.

Directly after I got my drafts, I rushed to do more revising. Pushing myself too hard on doing piled up works that I often times caught myself stealing gaps to play. That was my problem, procrastinating much and constantly confused of my works thus producing a poor writing.

Honestly speaking, I’m proud of my complete essay. Though people could have different opinions, but from that writing I absorbed new vocabularies. I also edited it on my own. Still, I thought I should gather opinion from others. So I went online and ask few overseas friends; I did everything I was capable of doing. Including a personal reading out loud session, printing and edit it by hands (because I would be more sensitive to mistakes with that method). I did those things I mentioned to my other academic writings too.

Then how did I freely got out of those burdens? Well, I set up my works in order. The goal was just to help me reduce the confusion and not to freak out, simple! At a certain fixed time I should be able to finish a work, focusing mainly on that work and nothing else. That method was perfectly working out, and here I am writing my last piece of task, my blog reflection.