Reflective Account: Reflective Practice

This essay highlights the reflection of the four tasks done as a part of the multi-part assignment. The four tasks include the completion of a CV, completion of a book evaluation, completion of a journal article and completion of an incite workbook. This essay aims to evaluate the development of the academic skills along with the skill of referencing and citation. This essay also attempts to demonstrate the skill of accessing various useful resources from a wide range of information resource.

The process of self reflection is an useful and effective one. Self-reflection helps a person identify his own strengths and weaknesses, along with highlighting the areas of improvement.  According to Findley, (2008), self-reflection is the best possible process to enhance one’s skills and identify the areas of improvement.

The first task was to successfully complete curriculum vitae. A CV is defined as a complete summary of a person, necessary to be employable (Oxford University 2015). While completing this task successfully, I was able to identify my strengths and weaknesses.  I found my employability skills, and highlighted them in the CV (Oxford University 2015). However, the weaknesses that I had identified were not mentioned explicitly. My achievements and pervious work experience was presented in an attractive manner. The writing skill that was used in order to complete the CV, was to successfully highlight a lot of information in a very concise manner (Oxford University 2015).

The second task was to evaluate a book successfully. The book was chosen in such a way that in clearly highlighted the topic of emergency pre hospital care (Limmeret al. 2015). The main concept highlighted in the book was reviewed. The ways the patients in the emergency unit are taken care have been highlighted. The choice of words to describe the key concepts mentioned in the book has been done tactfully (Limmeret al. 2015).

The next task was to evaluate a journal article. Out of many journal articles, the one chosen is an eminent one. The thesis of the journal article has been supported by empirical formulas and graphs (Lowe et al. 2015). Moreover, the fact that the journal is peer reviewed makes the journal even more useful. The facts and information presented in the journal are authentic and valid in the present day scenario. The details of the publisher and the various reviewing standards highlight the fact this chosen journal is a strong one (Lowe et al. 2015).

Finally, the last task was to complete the insite workbook. This workbook contained various subjects such as mathematics, spellings, English, grammar. This was to be completed successfully, in order to highlight my strengths and weaknesses (Clements, 2015). My learning capabilities, along with the capability of memorising were tested through this workbook. My academic writing skills along with the sense of English and grammar were also evaluated (Clements, 2015). My strengths were identified as planning and structured writing skills. However, my weaknesses were highlighted as the lack of memorising the spellings. This along with my results from the online VARK (2015) learning styles quiz allows me to maximise my learning potential for the course.

Finally, it might be concluded that this task helped me understand and identify my strengths and weakness in context of academic writing and referencing skills.  In conclusion I feel that this assessment have enabled me to reassess the way I approach writing skills and academic writing. I have had involvement in intelligent written work before however never extended that to reflection and evaluation of my work.  As rightly stated by Findley (2008), refelction provides the best ever feedback and gives us ways of improvement. While some of these abilities may have appeared to be straightforward at to begin with, through reflecting upon them their natural esteem has turned out to be clear. Building up a firm comprehension from these four essential undertakings of assessment aptitudes and intelligent practice enables solid establishments for further figuring out how to happen. In future, I will build up my scholarly composition aptitudes and give careful consideration to the distinction amongst contention and statement, taking consideration to utilize the previous to fortify my work. My activity arrange I have set out furnishes me with set review periods that I can work from to guarantee due dates are met and my new comprehension of intelligent practice from the four tasks has set me in great stead for the rest of the course. Thus, this assignment was an important one, and has a significant impact in enhancing my academic and writing skills.

References

Clements, M. (2015). The importance of reflection in education.

Findley, L. (2008) Reflecting on ‘Reflective practice’ Available at: https://www.open.ac.uk/opencetl/files/opencetl/file/ecms/web-content/Finlay-(2008)-Reflecting-on-reflective-practice-PBPL-paper-52.pdf (Accessed 11^th May 2017)

Limmer, D., O'Keefe, M. F., Grant, H., Murray, B., Bergeron, J. D., & Dickinson, E. T. (2015). Emergency care. Pearson.

Lowe, J. J., Jelden, K. C., Schenarts, P. J., Rupp, L. E., Hawes, K. J., Tysor, B. M., ... & Gibbs, S. G. (2015). Considerations for safe EMS transport of patients infected with Ebola virus. Prehospital Emergency Care, 19(2), 179-183.

Oxford University (2015) 'Preparing a CV' Available at: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/cv.html  (Accessed 11^th May 2017)

VARK Questionnaire (2015) 'How do I Learn Best' Available at https://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/ (Accessed 11^th May 2017)