The Second Reflection : Errors made in Writing of WA2

There were a few errors that I made in my writing on WA2 assignment, which includes a few instance of wrong tenses thorough the whole essay, the non-usage of articles, and last but not least the ambiguity of some statements as very few or no evidence has been presented in the writing of the essay.

Firstly, I have committed a few careless mistakes in the tenses of the subject. For example, in the first paragraph of my essay, I stated “Plants……it produces….” There is an obvious mistake as the world “Plants” is in the plural form; however I have written “produces”, which in the correct case should be singular “produce”. This type of mistakes can also be detected in the middle of the first paragraph. Again, “…plants produces…” is an issue of subject-verb agreement. These mistakes are as mentioned, careless mistakes committed by me, and therefore I will do extra checking for my future essay writings.

Secondly, articles have not been used when it is supposed to. For example, in my essay, I gave a general reference to the nuclear reactor “Very-high Temperature Reactor (VHTR)”. However, when I used the subject of VHTR in the later part of my essay, I did not make a specific reference to VHTR (i.e. starting of the sentence with “VHTR is a….”). The correct way of adding the specific reference is simply always adding the article “The” in front of the “VHTR” before continuing on with the sentence.

Lastly, the presence of ambiguity in my statements is due to the lack of sufficient sources to support my point. This, in my opinion, is due to the time constraints I experienced, as EG1471 have lots of assignments, tests, and blogs. I also need to juggle my time with other core modules. Thus, if we were not assigned so many tasks to complete for this module, I can confidently say that these ambiguities in the statements of my essay can be mostly cleared as more time is made possible for a more detailed research and better presentation of my essay.

However, most importantly, the knowledge gained on the skill on writing a better essay is in fact quite effectively imparted to us through this module. I am therefore convinced that it was not a fruit-less learning process after all.