Week 13 has arrived and I have finally come to the end of
the module, ES2007S. Through this course, I was introduced to a myriad of
useful content from the skills needed for effective communication to writing
resume letters and proposals and the techniques used in persuasive speeches.
The one aspect that I found extremely useful was persuasive
speeches as it made me reflect about how I could make audience identify with my
points better. As opposed to the Peer Teaching activity that focused more on
techniques relating to delivery of content, I initially found the Oral
Presentation aspect to be quite challenging. In the mock oral presentations, I
felt that I was merely regurgitating content without considering if the
audiences were internalizing the content that I had presented. However, with my
teammates’ help and re-watching the series of videos screened during
class-time, I have learnt much about how visualization techniques could be used
to enhance the impact of a particular problem and interpreting statistics to
relate the situation to personal self/community. Personally this exercise was extremely
rewarding and fruitful, as it had opened my perspective to different techniques
of presentation.
At the start of the course, I was slow in opening up to my
teammates due to my introverted nature. Hence, I felt that there seemed to
be a barrier of communication between us. However, over the weeks in which we did
up the group presentation and proposal and despite minor misunderstandings, I
am glad that we generally worked well as a team. For instance, I remembered
that my teammates willingly made accommodations for the meeting to be postponed
to another day when I had a sudden test scheduled on that day. This experience made me realized the importance of accommodation and discussing any issues collectively with your
teammates to come to the most appropriate solution
together.
All in all, this module has been a joy to take and I thank
Mdm Fazilah, my team-mates (Anna and Manish) and the class for the experience
(: All the best for the upcoming examinations.
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