Critical reflection

This module indeed helps me a lot in writing academic essays. I can see an obvious improvement of my English in grammar. Before taking ES1102, I seldom paid attention to grammar and often made terrible mistakes.

At the beginning of this course, I always messed up all the tenses and word forms and could not convey myself with proper language. I chose to use simple words and sentences. However, it is definitely not a good solution. Thanks to this course, I have done many grammar exercises, both online and in class. For example, we corrected each other's errors with reasons. Looking back, I have learned many things about grammar such as the usages of articles, prepositions and modal verbs, sentence structures, countable and uncountable nouns and so on. All of these became helpful when I was writing my essay. My improvement in grammar can also be seen from the increased scores of Online Grammar Exercises. After each exercise, the explanations made me be more aware of similar errors that I would make.

I am happy to see my improvement, but grammar is only one aspect. Therefore, I still have a long way to go in studying English. I have to read more academic essays and reports which can help me build vocabulary and become more organized in writing.