review of the semester

This research module for the semester has been an interesting one but also challenging for me from the start. I have never written or even wanted to write blogs and then being thrown into it as a 40% mark on my overall grade this year is quite daunting and very worrying even now.

When writing the blogs even deciding what to talk about has been a challenge for me as I am not very good at putting points across in a way which is of a 'bloggers' nature. As the weeks have gone on I have found that writing blogs has become easier however I am not sure whether they are good enough having looked at a few of my friends blogs, as they seem to have more knowledge and more academic writing styles than myself. Considering up until the start of the semester I had never done blogs I feel that the work I have done on the blogs has been to best of my ability in terms of trying to learn as much about them as I can, even thought it isn't really the kind of thing that I do.

The work and information we have learned during the semester hasn't been very beneficial to me, as I took sociology at A levels, and a lot of the information which we have covered in university classes I already had learned back then. Going over all the information again however was a good recap and reminder of all the different sections of research that you need to know and undertake when engaging in sociological research. This would also be key for when we had to start and undertake our sociological research in groups.

Doing the group work has been my favourite part of this research module, as it allowed us to use all the things we had learned on the module from analysing data to collecting secondary research. Looking into the topics further allowed us to specify and evaluate our research properly. Sometimes though working in a group became quite stressful as people always want things there own way and don't always comply with the overall opinions and views of each other. Despite some of this I enjoyed working within a group and would do it again for another module if I had to.

Completing the poster presentation and blogs will be great for me as I have found some aspects of each quite hard work. Although I am worried that 40% of my marks are based upon blogs because for me I know this is the weakest part which is why I have left them till now to upload because I knew they were not good and didn't want people to see them. I would have preferred personally if the blogs had been worth less like they were at the start however because the whole of the class didn't like how it was divided up it was changed to make it a little more equal.

In whole I have enjoyed this semester and all the tasks we had to do and look forward to continuing my degree further.