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Self critical essay
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I have to write a 2000 word essay explaining basically how i have grown during my first year at uni and what i have learnt, using examples.
How the hell am i supposed to do that!? :crying:
This really has to be the most pointless assignment in the history of assignments but it still has to be done, so help please??
How the hell am i supposed to do that!? :crying:
This really has to be the most pointless assignment in the history of assignments but it still has to be done, so help please??
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think about situations you've had to come across and how you've reacted to them and if you feel you've done so differently to how you would have done before uni. or what you've learn from mates that you've met at uni and how meeting lots of new people has opened your mind up to different things?
You now organise your own social and academic life, plan your own time without having someone tell you what to do, lead an independant life, all your own washing and ironing etc, have a balanced and varied diet, have learnt to write better quality essays, with relevance and depth and have found different sources for information and learnt to be more critical of it.
100 words on each of those most of which can be examples and you have your essay.
If it's the former then haven't you had any feedback from tutors or lecturers about your progress - either informally or through tutorial? They were big on these essays at my Uni and what I usually did was look at tutorial 1 and tutorial 2 and see where I had improved and what had needed work at the start and what I felt I was now stronger in. Usually things like time management and structuring of academic work, maintaining portfolios etc. Also things like participating in lectures and feeling growing confidence in making contributions both on placement and in academic areas.
If it's the latter then the things that have been mentioned. Just pull it out of your arse, you can say that you're fiercly independent now. You can manage to run a house, manage your own time without the egging on you had at college and in work etc.
Just make it up. I'm guessing they just want to see that you can analyse your own strengths and weaknesses and how your first year at Uni has improved your character and your academic ability
Assuming university life is the same for you as it is for me, I would say there a massive change from college to university despite the whole effort to get you used to university life.
Good luck with the 2,000 words though, thats harsh.:thumb:
does strike me as an utterly pointles excersize though, if they wanted to introduce you to critical writing you'd be better doing it on a bit of text.