Assessment Reflection

After finishing my task about technology, I have learnt many things regarding my topic, spam and regarding different ways of presenting ideas. In the task, I am given a chance to know better about a particular issue that has been around for a long time and been familiar to many people. As a web user myself, I have experienced receiving junk-mails like spam. This is why at the beginning, I thought that the issue of spam has been something that I have quite master. Yet after finishing the research essay which I’ve accomplished first, I realized that there is much that I haven’t heard of spam, for example how it can actually cause a loss of a lot of money and illegally generate a big profit for the spammers.

Having a chance to work on technological issue for this English Assessment has also make me learn that in the world of communication as the major concern of the society right now, there are actually problems that are inevitable. As the time goes by, technology keeps improving itself and innovation and inventions become a trend. However, technology doesn’t only give positive impacts all the time. There are people out there that use this tool as a way of cheating others to gain personal benefit. Personally, I am concerned with this problem as I am also one of the many users of the web.

Another thing that I’ve learnt from this task is ways of presenting ideas. In academic writing that this topic wants to emphasize, I realized that for different purposes of text, there are also different ways of presenting the main points. For example when doing the essay on compare and contrast, I learned how to present the material in a more structured and organized way. I learned that by having only one focus in each paragraph, for example Paragraph 1 explaining about similarities and Paragraph 2 about differences, makes my essay looks more vivid and clear. However, there are still a lot of areas for me to improve my writing. This is what I’ve realized after turning in drafts on my essay and having my words corrected b the teacher in charge. As a conclusion, I’ve enjoyed doing this assessment and am eager to learn more about academic writing and global issues.