Tutor Name: Student ID: Student Name: Attendance (tick): Distance On Campus Unit Code & title: Assign. Title/No: I declare that all material in this assignment is my own work except where there is clear acknowledgement or reference to the work of others. I am aware that my assignment may be submitted to plagiarism detection software, and might be retained on its database. I have read the University statement on Academic Misconduct (Plagiarism) on the University website at www.utas.edu.au/plagiarism or in the Student Information Handbook. Signed………………………………………………. Date …………………………………………… Assessor’s comment: Assessment: Assessor’s signature: (optional) Date:   Each week, respond to the 3 prompts. You should write 300-350 words each week. Continue to reflect on a weekly basis. The following entries will be submitted by 4 pm, Friday Week 13 of semester. Week 2 Reflect on your first week at university. Write about: • what your expectations of university were before starting and how you were feeling. Why? • what has become clearer to you after being at university a week, and what challenges you think you might face. Why? • what you plan to do to help you continue to settle in and feel at home here • • • Week 3 Reflect on note-taking in lectures and tutorials (or as a distance student). Write about: • what your challenges will be when taking notes, and why • what you now understand about the empowering potential of note-taking • which note-taking approach you will try, why, and how you will adapt it to suit you • • • Week 4 Reflect on active learning and also your learning style. Write about: • to what extent you have been a passive learner in the past and why. • what areas you will focus on in order to become more active in your learning. Why these areas in particular? • how you will modify the way you learn/study at university now that you understand more about your own learning style. • • • You should upload to MyLO your entries for Weeks 2, 3 & 4. (This is Assessment 1) Please do this by 4 pm on Monday of Week 5 of semester. (It is OK to upload this complete document). After uploading your first assessment, please continue your entries in the tables on the following pages.   Week 5 Reflect on your management of time. Write about: • How successful you generally are at managing your time. Why? • The impact that being at university has had on your life, in terms of time, and how you feel about this. • What you will consciously do to improve your management of time, and why. • • • Week 6 Reflect on plagiarism and your ability at this point in time to write in an academic way. Write about: • what you now know about plagiarism that you didn’t know before you came to university. • your main challenges at this point in time with writing in an academic way. Why? • how you think you will set about improving your skills in this area. • • • Week 7 Reflect on the process of listening to and giving oral presentations. Write about: • what it is that makes it difficult for you to stay engaged when you listen to someone speaking in a public or academic setting. Why is this? • what you think the main skills are that you will need to practice for the upcoming presentation and how you will do this. • what you think the benefits will be for you of listening to the other students give their oral presentations. • • • Week 8 Reflect on the feedback you received from your first reflective journal assessment and also your levels of motivation. Write about: • whether the feedback you received was what you expected. Why/Why not? • how you think you might further improve your reflective writing. • what plans you have to boost your levels of motivation in order to make it through to the end of semester. • • • Week 9 Reflect again and more deeply on your management of time and the strategies you have put in place to improve in this area. Write about: • success in time management you have had this semester, and how you have achieved this success. • the impact it has on your university life and life outside university. • your remaining challenges in the area of time management. • • • Week 10 Reflect on the value of critical thinking. Write about: • what relevance you now see in developing critical thinking skills (at university and in life outside university). • what aspect(s) of critical thinking you would like to develop in and why. • how you will set about improving in this (these) areas. • • • Week 11 Reflect again and more deeply on your learning style(s). Write about: • how this new knowledge has modified the way you deal with university life. • how you feel as a result of knowing more about how you learn. • how you will prepare for the up-coming exam as a result of knowing how you best learn. • • • Week 12 Reflect on how you have reflected on your learning this semester. Write about: • to what extent you have found reflecting on your learning challenging, and why. • to what extent reflective thinking/writing has impacted on your studies. • how you see you might be able to further apply this ability to situations outside university life. • • • In Week 13 you will write your 600-word summary / letter. Start writing it on a new page. Your 600-word summary / letter has two focuses. Please see below for information on what to write. Based on your experience of what you have learned in Learning at University this semester, and also based on what you have heard other students talk about, imagine you are writing a letter of advice to a prospective Learning at University student. 1. In this ‘letter’, you should write about 3 of what you believe to be the most important topics/areas of information. You should write 600 words and include the following for each topic: • tell the student about a main feature of the topic and why it will be important to learn this for success at university • suggest to the student what areas they might experience difficulty with and why • suggest some specific plans that you think they could try to put into place to develop their skills/abilities in this area 2. Finally, make some predictions about how all of this new knowledge will impact on the new student’s every-day life outside of university. (You can do this at the end of each topic section, or at the end of the summary/letter. You choose which way you would prefer to write about the predictions).