Critical Reflection

It has been a fruitful journey ever since I undertake the module effective communications. 12 weeks had passed in a blink of an eye and the module is coming to an end. I had learnt a lot through this module, from providing a reader’s response, to writing a technical report and lastly oral presentations.

This module allows me to sharpen and understand how important communications skills is. For instance, we are tasked to complete the Reader’s response. This helped me to read and interpret the article in many various way, looking past the words to search for deeper meanings and also allowing me to pick up criticism skills and then provide information and research to back up with the responses.

Having written numerous reports during my Diploma course of studies, SIT allows me to unlearn the skillset that I have and equipped me with more source of information to relearn the importance of writing a technical report. From this event, I learnt that for a technical report, everything need to be very clear and concise and must have a good flow of content so that the reader is able to understand what the proposal is for.

My biggest take away from this module is the skills for oral presentation. I used to think that oral presentations was just simply presenting my ideas to the audience. However through this oral presentation, I learnt that as a good presenter, we need to capture the attention of the audience. Not only that, good eye contact is important as the audience would be able to get your attention. Having good articulation and projection of our voice, portraying better body posture, hand gesture and enthusiasm, it indirectly affects the quality of oral presentation.

Lastly I would like to thank my tutor, Ms Lim, and my fellow peers for always providing me with constructive feedback to improve my skills, and also making my effective communications learning journey an enjoyable one.