Week 2

Reflection

In this weeks lecture we learnt how to write a piece of reflective writing effectively. There are 3 main steps in Borton's model which can help me to do this. First is 'What' where you describe the event in which you are reflecting on. Second is 'So What', this is the main reflection part where you reflect by analysing what happened during the event and draw conclusions from your own analysis. Third is 'Now What' which involves you putting what you have learnt into action and integrating it into your future goals which will help you improve in the future. 

I found this lecture very helpful as I have never tried to write a reflective piece of writing before so I had no prior knowledge, this was all brand new to me. English as a subject has never been one of my strong points, therefore I have often struggled with writing different pieces of texts in the past and I wasn't very confident. However, after having everything broken down in the lecture into steps through models it has really shown me how simple reflective writing can be. 

I am going to use this skill in the future with each blog post I will be writing weekly which will help me build my skill level for the big reflective piece we will have to do individually after Easter, as I know at the moment I will not be very good at reflective writing as I have not practiced it.

Teamwork

Throughout the week each member of our team worked individually, we all went away and did our own research on JTI. In today's seminar we brought together the research we had done, this has gave us a much better insight on JTI as each of us had different information which when brought together gave us a rounded idea of what JTI's purpose/message is and how they operate successfully. Once we had gathered all our information we then used this to create a set of questions for Chloe to ask her dad about the business in general, his role on a day to day basis and any technological problems he may face, specifically communication due to the distance for an international company like JTI. Once we have the answers to the question, we will be given an idea to the depth of the company internally, be able to understand what problems they face and whether these problems are on a big scale for the company. 

As we do not yet know the exact problems the company is facing we cannot designate roles and begin to think of solutions; for the moment no one has a specific role except from Chloe as she has to take questions to her dad, which she will do throughout the week, and then relay the information back to the rest of the group in next weeks seminar. During next weeks seminar is when we will begin to decide on roles and split our group up as by then we will know exactly what problems we need to try and solve and we can begin to go onto the next step in our group project.