final Journal

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.