Final Reflection

This semester seems to pass by so fast and now it has come to the final blog post. After 13 weeks of lessons, I felt that I had learnt a lot about communication skills and how we should apply them in our future career and our daily life. Also, I believed that the most useful thing that I had picked up in this module would be learning to write the application letter and resume. I always thought that the application letter does not make any importance or influence to our job interviews. And now I knew that I should write a good letter in order to impress our future employers.

I believed the most memorable experience throughout the module, would be the final project, as it had created many “first time” for me in NUS. For example, it was the first time I had to stay back till so late with my team members to do a project; the first time I had to wear so formal to present; the first time I had to write a proposal and the first time I had to bring my laptop to school. Also, I enjoyed being with the team, thank you divya, germaine and xian rui for making these experiences so enjoyable.

At first, I would say I hate this module as I need to ‘use’ a lot of proper English, but after everything, I believe that I did not regret taking this module.

Lastly, good luck to everyone in group 7 for their final exams=)

Reflecting on oral presentation

Before I start on my reflection part, the most important thing is that I would like to thank my team members, Divya, Germaine and Xian Rui. Thanks so much for helping out with my part and the rehearsal. Even though we had to stay back after school and sacrifice some of our time and weekends, I still enjoyed working with you guys .In general, thanks very much for making this project successful=)

I believe one of my strength is that I did try to stay calm during my speech and make contact with everyone. And another good point is to choose the shortest part as I was aware that oral presentation is not my strength, hence I would rather speak less and make the whole presentation seems more successful, instead of screwing the whole thing with my incompetence.

As for my weakness, I believe my eye contact was just sweeping glances with the audiences as I was trying to remember the figures. And I believe that I tend to speak softer when I was unsure of certain parts. Also, over-relying on my script is affecting my voice projection.

However, I felt that as compared to the peer teaching, I was a little more confident as my team had really spend a lot of time rehearsing together. This oral presentation really gave me a chance to improve on my presentation skills. I believed I had learnt a lot from this oral presentation.


Shi Ting