Week 2

Reflection

This weeks lecture was on reflective writing, we learnt what it was and why it is important to do it. Reflective writing is an examination of ourselves and our actions. I learnt what was to be considered when writing reflectively as it is important to write only key points. I also learnt that reflective writing helps to develop a better understanding, helps us learn more and helps develop more skills. Our lecturer spoke about Borton's 3 Elements, a theory that helps when reflective writing. It focuses the three questions, What? So what? and Now what? This will help my reflective writing to be more descriptive and it backs up the information using related theories. The last point 'Now what?' helps on what I could do next time so I can improve my quality of work.

I also learnt the focused free writing technique, a technique that helps me to start thinking about something more freely. There are different steps to this technique, the first being to reflect on an incident, experience or process, write for 15 minutes without stopping not worrying about grammar or spelling then skim through the work and pick out any information that could be useful for my work.

Teamwork

Today in the seminar, my team brought together all of our findings from our Japan Tobacco International research task. This really helped us get a good idea of what the business was, how it runs and what possible problems they may face.We then thought about possible questions we could ask the business to find out more about the company internally through their employees. We then would ask more questions about what problems they may face on a daily bases due to technological problems. This will give us a better understanding of the problems within the business so we can come up with solutions as a team. As a team we discussed that Chloe will ask the questions to the employee as she knows people within the business so she will then reflect back to us the problems the business faces. We will then assess the problems, find out which problems we want to solve, set each member of the team a task to do and come up with a solution.