Reflective Log

Question: Describe about the Reflective Log? Answer: This section will reflect how I have enhanced myself personally and professionally throughout the learning at GSM. The reflection is the method of reproduction and reorganization of experience and knowledge, which attaches the significance of experience. While writing this research paper, I have developed by knowledge and skill beyond the scope of my course. I feel more confident regarding my composition capacities; aptitudes of examination and project management throughout the learning here. Each step of learning in the whole program facilitated to complete this research paper on time, despite of facing trouble while collecting data. The supervisor whom I worked under the program of GSM has guided me properly during the research. With his support and help I have successfully understand all the aspects of making a dissertation. The time spent at GSM enables me to understand all these aspects of writing research and executing assignment. The learning process at GSM helped me to choose a topic for the research work. It has also helped me to understand the topic critically. The structure of the dissertation paper was explained properly. This research was based on both primary and secondary data. Collecting primary data was a bit troublesome, however, with the immense support from my supervisor and co-workers, I have successfully gathered them all and executed them. While gathering information regarding the secondary sources, I have learnt how to use internet for searching any database. Apart from looking into the library, the using internet made my task easier. Secondary sources were made authenticated before using it in the data analysis part and unsuitable data were not used as the supervisor helped me to extract those. Several journal articles have been studied and information were also collected from those articles and research papers. Therefore, engaging in the research work at GSM helped me to enhance my knowledge by providing opportunities to read those articles. Moreover, while writing this reflective log, I have realized that the course at GSM helped me to improve my communication skills and trained me to manage time. It has also provided the opportunity to implement the techniques of project management. Before doing the first chapter, informative knowledge regarding the topic was collected; this enables me to understand the scenario of the research area. I have decided my research objectives and learnt how to form research questions. The supervisor helped me to understand that the research should not lose its focus and must be concentrated around answering the research question, without diverting from the main topic. The literature review part was quite exciting, as it requires to research rigorously that I have not performed earlier. The learning at GSM makes me understand that the reviewing of literature is one of the major part of a research paper. This is because; the findings from the literature review will be linked with the analysis of data. I have learnt how to write this kind of extensive literature review explaining the several sub-topics under the main subject. I have also learnt different methods of research. This developed an entirely new knowledge; and I have found it very interesting to learn that so many research philosophy; design and methods are there to execute a research. Throughout the learning at GSM enables me to execute the analysis of data that have been collected. I have also learnt to draw conclusion from the finding of the analysis and providing proper answer to the research question. The whole program has helped me gather lot of experiences.