For our first assignment in Strategies class, we had to read chapter 1 of "Learning to Learn" and take a self assessment quiz. Then we had to write a short report summarizing what we learned from the chapter and how it relates to our own learning strategies.
How I completed my original report:
After doing the self assessment quiz I could visually see which sections I needed to concentrate on and which I was doing well on my own with. I read about each of the sections in the text book to gain a better understanding of each topic, so that I could rank them in order from what I needed to work on most to what I was doing well with. I wrote my paper summarizing what i learned in the text book and explained which areas in needed to work on and why.
Self assessment:
After receiving my report back and getting a few tips from Tim I realized ways to improve my paper, so i choose the option of rewriting my report. I believe the information in my report helped explain more about me and my learning techniques to my teacher, Tim Field, because I explained my weaknesses and strengths to him in each of the different topics. But i realized that it was not in the appropriate layout. I smooched all my information of the topics in one paragraph. For my original report i would have given my self a 7 out of 10, because the info is good just the layout is hard to understand and read.
My New Approach:
To rewrite my report I am going to keep the information I have in my original paper, I am just going to change the layout so it will be easier to the find information. I will achieve a new layout by adding bolded head titles, more spacing and numbering my points.
What I Learned:
We were given this project with very few guidelines to follow. And I now see it was because Tim wanted us to hand in a report that met our standards of writing and layouts. He then gave the reports back and taught a class of appropriate layouts and what is accepted. We received our papers back and we had a chance to see how our own writing styles compared to what was appropriate. It made me take a second look at how I write. It definitely showed me what areas I need to work on when doing a paper. I think that was an extremely smart way of visually showing the class their writing techniques compared to what an accepted perfect paper should be.
