reflective statement
Reflective statement
This unit learning, I have a framed understanding of the four pillars of the fashion business, I considered and learned a lot about the theme’ what challenge does the fashion industry face’, ‘how to attract Gen Z ‘,’ what ‘s the valuable purpose can give to a brand’ in the lecture and seminar. I exercised my ability to read, summarize or paraphrase academic literature in the process of blog practice. When I start to try doing my blog editing, I feel hard to sort out logical links to the literature and conclusions I have outlined, sometimes my overview of the reference source is confusing. I feel very stressed and struggle when I consider whether the citation part, I chose can correctly reflect the discussion directions which require to involve in each blog. Besides, I was constricted by my English oral proficiency in the seminar group discussion, and I cannot fully express my personal view sometimes. For instance, when we were going for the brand diversity discussion, I want to share a report I read before that women are now underrepresented at the top of leading fashion brands while confusing how to further conclude of this phenomenon. Also, I’m facing the learning skills challenge in the Monday lecture. Those things both affect my understanding of the course content.
The critical thing and citation problem was pointed out by my classmate in the planet blog peer-to-peer reflection class. She analysed the reason resulting to this, I was not organized when I start to do research, which means after finishing reading one article I didn’t think about which place should I put the reference source and opinion into and what conclusion I could get to follow them, let alone comparing the different quote views to do critical thinking. So she suggests I made the structure of the whole blog before starting to do further research which can avoid listing my mind and ensure that I made the argument around the key point. Through the first-time blog practice, I clearly recognized that I should improve my logical thinking and paraphrasing skills.
In this whole practising process for the blog, I find my myself having a lot of patience in reference sources reading but lack of summary and classifying ability. Language support class provide some basic model, paraphrasing verb and some citation scenario, which help me a little bit, but I still need to spend more time learning by reading a related essay from the google scholar website, analyzing the essay author and how they deal with their citation paraphrasing and browsing essay reference list to find their original quote. For remaining and improving my reading skills, I start to schedule exclusive reading time in my daily commuting time, reading the Moodle reading list book or the BOF and Drapers daily subscribe news, aiming to let my scanning and skimming speed as quick as the English native speaker. With regard to the language problem, I mention above, it is obviously will be a considerable threat in the further. Youtube and Netflix is the temporary main way to do a daily accumulation to improve my speaking and learning skills and I will amply use the school resource to have a conversation with more native students in break time or after class.