I think Academic literacy is a subject which helps to
improve language learning skills which will be important to us in further
studies. This subject mainly focuses on literacy skills, communication skills
and ability to work collaboratively and as well as individually. Most
importantly this unit introduced a range of text, task types, various learning
tools and platforms commonly encounters. So I think overall academic literacy
is a valuable unit for me as I learned a lot and also I developed my learning strategies
as well.
I had to overcome lot of challenges when completing various
assessment tasks throughout this course. On the very first day I found out my
learning style and I realised my strategies to study more efficiently. This
valuable understanding helped me throughout my studies and I must say that this
unit was well organized. Writing portfolio and journal entries helped me to
develop my writing skills. Mainly because there were range of genres included
in writing portfolio and this is really helpful for me to develop my writing
skills. TED Talks and ABC Radio National website consists of vast information
as a lot of professional speakers and professors have emphasised their view in
different categories. This listening portfolio task helped me to improve my
presenting skills and by commenting on them made me gain knowledge as well.
Paraphrasing and summarising more accurately was also another useful thing
which I learned recently. Commenting on discussion board helped us to evaluate
our personal experience of learning as well. Vocabulary assessment component
and the annotation task were my favourite tasks. I learned new words and also mastered a lot
of words because of vocabulary website and I recommend this website for all the
foundation students as it helps to improve vocabulary skills. Doing annotations
was important to me in my future studies as well because my path is engineering
and I really enjoyed annotating texts while researching about them. Reviewing
and editing written work for accuracy, fluency and coherence was another unique
thing which I learned from this unit. The main challenge I faced when completing
these assessment components was to do researches more accurately and I
successfully overcame it.
There are lots of learning outcomes from this unit and I
honestly enjoyed completing these tasks. I suggest Ms. Julia Gardiner to add
this subject for foundation studies and also make it compulsory for all
students as we can get a vast knowledge which will be important in the future.
