study skills
Using critical self-reflection to improve and refine my study skills
Using critical self-reflection to improve and refine my study skills
Critical self-reflection refers to analysing one’s personal skills and qualities in depth. Critical self-reflection also involves being able to identify where one has strengths and weaknesses, as well as finding a solution on how to better ones self. In this essay I shall be writing about how critically reflecting on the study skills I possess and those that need enhancing has helped me to improve and refine them. The skills I will be writing about include: understanding questions; writing an essay; being organised; time keeping and note taking. By critically self-reflecting on my study skills I have found that I tend to lack understanding of essay questions. Recognising this weakness has allowed me to find a solution to improve my sense of clarity over any future essay question that is to be set. To progress my understanding of a question I cannot take it at face value, I need to look for the hidden meaning. The way in which I find this hidden meaning is by identifying the psychology words, these are essentially the words that direct my answer. One way to identify these key words is by presenting the essay title in question to an individual of practical intelligence who has not studied psychology and wait for them to enquire about a word or words. Once they have enquired about the meaning of a word or words I will know that my answer should focus around them (Stevenson, 2001). Critically self-reflecting on why I struggle to understand an essay question has empowered me to discover the reason behind this as well as allowing me to find a suitable solution to improve and refine my understanding of essay questions. Another issue I struggle with is writing an essay. The fact that I struggled to understand essay questions may have added to the difficulty of previously writing
Using critical self-reflection to improve and refine my study skills
Critical self-reflection refers to analysing one’s personal skills and qualities in depth. Critical self-reflection also involves being able to identify where one has strengths and weaknesses, as well as finding a solution on how to better ones self. In this essay I shall be writing about how critically reflecting on the study skills I possess and those that need enhancing has helped me to improve and refine them. The skills I will be writing about include: understanding questions; writing an essay; being organised; time keeping and note taking. By critically self-reflecting on my study skills I have found that I tend to lack understanding of essay questions. Recognising this weakness has allowed me to find a solution to improve my sense of clarity over any future essay question that is to be set. To progress my understanding of a question I cannot take it at face value, I need to look for the hidden meaning. The way in which I find this hidden meaning is by identifying the psychology words, these are essentially the words that direct my answer. One way to identify these key words is by presenting the essay title in question to an individual of practical intelligence who has not studied psychology and wait for them to enquire about a word or words. Once they have enquired about the meaning of a word or words I will know that my answer should focus around them (Stevenson, 2001). Critically self-reflecting on why I struggle to understand an essay question has empowered me to discover the reason behind this as well as allowing me to find a suitable solution to improve and refine my understanding of essay questions. Another issue I struggle with is writing an essay. The fact that I struggled to understand essay questions may have added to the difficulty of previously writing
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