THE FIRST THREE WEEKS

Our first class for ELC550 for this semester actually starts on the 10^th September of 2014. However, as there was something going on at the Faculty of Language Study, the class were cancelled on that date. On the next class, Dr Krish gave us a brief explanation on the course content of ELC550. She highlighted that in this course; it’ll be the student itself that need to improvise themselves. Later, as the time goes by, she really hopes that her students could speak and write proficiently. Student’s language proficiency in writing will be evaluated from these five writing aspects which are synthesis, analysis, application, comprehension, and also student’s self-knowledge itself.

To ensure that the process of learning will be systematic and easy to be referred later, we; as her students, need to prepare a portfolio for this course. There, we include the course information of this course, some notes on plagiarism, correct source of information and also notes on how to write reference correctly. Apart from that, Dr Krish had also asked us to create a reflective blog and wrote something about the class like how the class going on etc. She really wanted to know those things of what actually the students understand, the things that they do not understand, and student’s view on the subject matter introduced in class.

Previously, I already had my own blog. As from my point of view, I could see that a blog could really help us in expressing thoughts and opinion apart from voice it out. My previous blog mostly was written in Bahasa. However, to fulfil the requirement of this class, I challenged myself to fully utilize this blog to enhance my English Language skill. Thus, here, I would like to write fully in English. By having this blog, I could voice out my opinion regarding current issue especially to those that are related to educational and academic issues. As what I have disclaimed in the previous post, I won’t use this blog for my personal matter.

For friends who have not started creating your blog, I would like to inform you something. What do we have to know before starting a blog? Firstly, you have to decide on what are you going to blog about. Then, ensure on which blogging platform that you are about to choose. Lastly, choose the correct domain and hosting. These three steps were important to make your blog interesting and easy to-be-used later.

As a conclusion, hmm, yeah, I really agree with this sorts kind of activity as I believe that practising to write on our own daily (even though only a paragraph a day) could really help us (as students) to improve our writing skill. So, don’t worry about people’s perception. Just put down your thoughts.

Do enjoy your writing session everyone!

Best Regard.