Mihaela Cercel
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Mihaela Cercel
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Introduction:
This template should be used to record your reflections on the weekly sessions.
Please use the spaces provided to reflect on what was discussed in class, what
you gained from the session; did you find the content useful, how can you relate
it to your studies at university as a business student. You will also need to
discuss how you intend to further develop the skills discussed in class. This is a
continuous process and should be completed during the module and not at the
end.
In week 8 you will be expected to submit what you have completed so far, via
Blackboard, in order to receive feedback. You will then complete weeks 9 and
10 and summatively submit the journal in week 14.
The Weekly Reflective Journal will be used in conjunction with your Personal
Learning and Development Plan and Interview to work out the final grade for
this module. Submission of all parts of the assessment are required in order to
receive a grade.
Week 1
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
The first week was very interesting for me, because I was looking forward to this day
when we will all meet. Things were very simple at the beginning, because we discussed
how the classes will go, what the future topics will be and what we need to do in the
future for each course. I can't wait to learn new things that will help me in my personal
and professional life and I want to have very good results. I think that's my main goal.
I've always wanted to be one of the best students in the class, and I still want that in
college.
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Week 2
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
Week 3
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
The topic we discussed in the third week was personal swot analysis. We developed the analysis
model together with the help of the teacher, and after that we each focused on our own analysis.
After doing my exercise, I realized that there are problems that have not helped me and have not
allowed me to develop so far. I admit that many times I do not write down all the weaknesses that I
have but without assuming them I will never be able to move on. Now I realize that this has been
the main cause of my failures so far in both my professional and personal life. Starting today, I will
work on my weaknesses every day and I want to give up how many bad habits every week until
the end of the year.
We started the second week with the first chapter that we are going to learn, namely reflective
thinking. Each of us must have a time to analyze the situations we have gone through. I found
this exercise very useful, because in the past I went through experiences that marked me and
that did not help me to evolve, because I did not stop to analyze what I was doing wrong. I am
grateful that through today's lesson I learned how to apply actual thinking to the experiences I
went through. The process is very simple because I have to think about what I can improve and
apply these new improvements in the future.
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Week 4
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
In the fourth week we talked about academic writing. I understood that academic writing
involved a much more complex structure than those learned so far. The teacher introduced us to
a lot of things that we can accomplish, namely the essay, the report, the bachelor's thesis or the
dissertation. Most often we will come across the essay that I find very easy to do because it has
only a few parts such as the introduction, the content, the conclusion and of course the
references. The most complicated part for me is that we have to use a much more complex
vocabulary that I have not yet developed much, but after doing some research for my work I am
sure that I will learn new terms.
Week 5
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
Time has passed quite quickly and I already feel much richer in knowledge than before. If last
week we learned about a much harder, much more formal writing style, this week we talked
about reflective writing and its importance in our lives. I always liked this type of writing more
because it contains descriptions, analyzes and past actions. I also talked about the methods I
learned in reflective thinking, namely Kolbb's and Gibb's circle of learning, and I think that these
two concepts refer to exactly the same thing, namely the way we learn from an experience
through which I passed.
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Week 6
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
Week 7
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills. Use a minimum of one academic source and reference this.
This week we discussed the importance of reading in my personal life, but especially in
my student life. When we learn more, we have the chance to reach the highest possible
level in our career and reading also offers us many benefits. Reading since I was a child
has helped me to discover the world because I read all sorts of things from different
cultures. Now that we are in college, reading will help me to improve the vocabulary I
need in my academic writing because I will gain new knowledge when I read, for
example, a specialized paper. Another important thing for me when I read is that it
reduces my stress and improves my concentration on one thing.
This week we discussed the importance of references in academic papers, and how they help
us avoid plagiarism. Each week I discussed these two terms and presented each paper in
which this section should exist. Most often we have to use it in academic writings because we
will need to document ourselves from foreign sources to give examples of our arguments and
if we do not make this list of references We will be accused of plagiarism and I do not want to
drop any exam. So far we have known the importance of this, but we did not know how to
make such a list correctly, but the teacher explained to us how we should reference the works
and in the future you will know.
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Week 8
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills. Use a minimum of one academic source and reference this.
This journal should be formatively submitted for feedback, via Blackboard, at the end of this week.
In the eighth week we recapitulated all the things we had learned so far and also took a look at
the upcoming exams we have. This week is the last one we have to write in the weekly diary for
the first assignment. The theme of week eight is presentation. In my life at some point I will
have to present something either at work or at school and I will not know how to do it right. I
learned that behind a successful presentation is a lot of practice and repetition as well as public
speaking skills as well as the nonverbal language we have. Now that I have written down all the
things I need to learn, I know what I will have to do in the coming months and I hope that in the
end, I will succeed in what I set out to do.
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