Self Discovery Reflection

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Review: “The Self Discovery” Style Journals enable me to reflect on the week’s new course content by practising my own writing. However, my seven journals apply an inconsistent tone indicating a confused target audience. For example, my first journal uses a formal tone through ‘proper’ and descriptive word choice where I explain that I “provide feedback in a very professional, neutral and advisory tone” for my job (Singh, 2016a). This appeals to ‘logos’ as it presents a degree of maturity and proficiency in my writing. Journal One was intentionally written formally as I expected it to be marked as assessable work. In comparison, in Journal Eight, my writing is more casual as I present my feelings and anecdotal evidence when I say, “…I find…”…show more content…
For example, I discuss the impact of parental pressure on Asian students in a single 37-word sentence (Singh, 2016d). Despite that, my creative writing fosters the formation of new ideas. For example, in Journal Four I experimented with a neologism to write a song on “financial bonds” allowing me to deconstruct the complexity of finance (Singh, 2016c). Ultimately, I would benefit from incorporating my creative ideas in my formal tasks to solidify my logic. I have taken this self-reflection onboard and am experimenting with this style in a work…show more content…
However, I have included my perspective along with the academic discussion. Plagiarism is a major issue in modern education, being one of the primary reasons for dismissal of Chinese students from the US education system (Marsh, 2016). A 2006 study found that Chinese students have a “lesser knowledge of what constituted plagiarism than local students” (Redfern & Barnwell, 2009, p. 2-3). They were also found to rate various instances of plagiarism as “significantly more acceptable” (Redfern & Barnwell, 2009, p. 2-3). The following paragraph offers a retort to why this is necessary. The “social welfare system” is a mechanism to ensure a standard ‘quality of life’ is provided to all citizens of a society (Social Welfare System, 2010). China’s social protection spending is measured at only 5.4% of its GDP (Asian Development Bank, 2016, p. xiii). In comparison, the OECD average is significantly higher at 22% of GDP spending (OECD, 2016, p. 1). This suggests that China offers fewer benefits, such as unemployment support, which essentially forces students to prepare for their own survival in society. In conclusion, Chinese students must ensure they secure their future and cannot accept any
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