Blog post 7 -- Reflections (mirror??)

It has been a fairly fast semester, and reflecting on my first post, I am mildly surprised at how much I have progressed, and how much I stick to 20 odd year old habits.
Literally speaking, my understanding of the value of communication skills has not changed. I still seriously believe it is important (anyone who says he doesn’t is really bold since this is graded :> ). On the other hand, I have gleaned a whole wealth of knowledge on many fine intricacies of communications. How to have effective communications (7 Cs), how to be mindful of intrinsic differences in the means of communications inter and intraculturally. To be reminded succinctly that the semantics of an exchange involves far more than the words verbalized but also nonverbal cues accompanying them.
I count the business correspondence and biodata posts as among the most important lessons learnt. The MOST important lessons learnt was from feedback of my peers. This feedback is much more valuable than anything one can get from simple scholarly pursuits of academia because it showed me the strength and weaknesses of what I had written. (I would like to take this opportunity to thank all who have given feedback, whether constructive or not as it means I do have areas to work on :> )
While I took this module at the urging of my friend, I have gained a whole lot of practical skills that I believe is far more important in my coming career than the pathological progression of Dengue haemorrhagic fever. I have thoroughly enjoyed the exchanges both cyber as well as in classrooms and the videos of terrible interviews tremendously. I do have a lot more I wish to enunciate, but alas, I am nearing the word limit. I shall conclude by expressing my gratitude to Mrs Richardson, who has facilitated this module wonderfully, and to my friends in ES2007S, all the best in your future endeavours (just please let us not be vying for the same job :> )