The first piece of work is a group work where we were supposed to do a snapshot writeup of a research paper based on our class' perceptions of the learning environment we experienced and to analyse results that we have collected using modified WIHIC. This took us the whole morning and part of the afternoon.
Some learning points on writing research papers:
- Abstract should be short (<100>
- When presenting findings on a table, values should not be bold, lines should not be thick, number of decimal places of values presented should be standardised throughout the table, decimal places should be aligned for neat presentation of data
- Graphs should be plotted to show significant differences between the item means. For points with no significant differences, average value of the preferred and actual item mean should be plotted as one single point.
- The word "findings" should be used instead of "results" for more accurate representation
For the rest of the afternoon, we went around to view each others' blogs and give a peer assessment score for each blog.
Some features of good blogs are as follows:
- Aesthetically pleasant and easy on the eye
- Captures the readers' attention in one way or another (either through beautiful pictures, meaningful diagrams, or simply music to engage the feelings)
- Interesting write up that entice readers to read on and on
- Insightful reflections
We were then tasked to complete our individual reflection as homework. sigh.. had thought that everything could be wrapped up by 5pm today.
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