I have learnt a lot about the subject of “Academic
literacy”. I feel very lucky to have our lecturer, Mrs. Ayami tennekoon. This subject
helped me very much in my college life and to work more effectively with other
subjects as well. Although it was very much challenging because there were many
little tasks. I enjoyed every bit of it. There was something to learn from
every task.
Writing journals is my favorite. I can write how I feel and
it is all about my thoughts. Discussing board is also interesting. We have to
comment on those threads and share our ideas and also to comment on our
friend’s posts. We did some in-class activities such as summarizing, note
taking activity, persuasive techniques and writing expanded definitions. It developed many of my language skills. I came across some really interesting
assessments so far. Such as, writing port folios. It is very much challenging.
But it is a very good assessment task I would say. Since there was a deadline
to submit it, it took our attention and we were forced to do it first no matter
how busy we were. To be honest I think this taught me how to manage time and
how to do everything on time. I like it. Commenting on TED talks and ABC Radio
national were pretty much fun. Some of the TED talks motivated me. As an example, the speech of Roz Savage, as a woman, she tells to believe in the possibility
and necessity of personal transformation, to create powerful visions of the
future, and to find the inner strength and self-esteem to make those visions a
reality. This gives me the strength how to overcome challenges and how to
tackle with them. Working with Diigo is pretty much interesting after getting
to know about it although it is not very user friendly. I could annotate any of
the texts in Web Pages, and also to highlight it with many colors. www.vocabulary.com is a good site. It helped me a lot in my vocabulary
side. It is somewhat like a game. I had to do many quizzes to get points and
also to get achievements. So my friends and I do it all the time to get the
highest points. We were competing. It was very much fun.
This subject
is very interesting. It has never been boring to me so far. This made
academic literacy as my favorite subject. I enjoyed this subject. I
improved a lot with this subject. I suggest that everyone who starts their
academic level of studies, they should really do this subject. I as an
engineering student, think it is very good to have a subject like this with all
the other engineering subjects.
