SIE2016 Effective Communications (Grp 5)

At the start of the course, I have made a commitment to seek new ways to improve my writing and oral presentation skills. If there was one thing to take away from this module, it is to write and re-write an essay a thousand times. Although having a strong command in English is important, an essay written once may not always be perfect. There will always be areas to be improve on. The key point is ' improvement '. There must be an improvement in the second, third, fourth, fifth, and up to the thousandth draft. There is no point of re-doing an essay if the same mistakes were repeated again and again. One article that I have re-written many times is the reader response on cladding. That article was one that I had spent most time (and probably brain cells too) on, and I am glad to have attained one of the highest grades for that assignment so far. From that reader response, I have learnt the lesson of re-writing an essay a thousand times. As I have said, there will always be area...

On the 16 th of November 2017, I did a presentation with my team to ‘sell’ our solution to solving SIT’s electricity wastage woes. Honestly, I do not think that I have done well for it. I was spontaneous with my words, and had the tendency to go off-topic or beat around the bush. With only 3 key points on my slide and elaborations in my head, I brought the audience a full circle around the same point during the evaluations section. Moreover, everyone could see that I was nervous, as seen by a laser pointer that shakes uncontrollably each time I point at the screen. Surely, my presentation could have been better. I could hold a script in my hand, but, to me, that’s very amateur. I would rather speak on the spot and be free to move. The best way to deliver a presentation is to be familiar with the content - to be one with the project. This way, the presentation would be more genuine. According to what I have written in my first blogpost in this communications class, I mentioned...