Self-reflective Summary on Business Communication

On week 7, I submitted my final essay for business communication. Out of given three topics I choose the topic “organizational structure does not influence effective communication in an organization”. I argue on the essay was that organizational structure influences effective communication in an organization. Moreover, when I researched I found that both organizational structure and effective communication are most important as they support the success and achievement of an organizational goal. In an organization when there is balanced organizational structure and uninterrupted and effective communication where both parties clearly define and properly understand each other, a business can get maximum profit and productivity.

One of the most difficult things that I had was researching academic sources for my assignments. I did not know how to find the relevant topics to my assignments. I did not know how to understand the keywords that we need to put into EBSCO. I started finding out the supportive topics a lot of times into EBSCO. But I could not find it easily and I became quite frustrated as I have never gone through it before. I felt like how to do? What to do? On week 9 I received the essay’s mark and feedback from the lecturer, I scored 4 out of 20. Then I went through the feedback, I found that there was not enough research done that is needed. I found that my essay was full of plagiarism because I have not paraphrase the author’s idea into my own words. Even some of the sources were not in the reference list. Moreover, as required by the assessment brief, I have to use textbook in my essay but I have not used the textbook for the research. If I had gone through the ALS Moodle page and have read the questions properly then it would made me easier to do the assignment.

Another issue that I found in my essay was structuring the essay. Due to inadequate research the essay was not structured well. Even the thesis statement was not addressed in the introduction part which supports mine argue in the essay. Due to lack of enough research the writing was not good as it was needed. So, I was informed to redo the essay and resubmit by the end of week 11. Through this mistake, I have learned a great lesson. I need to do sufficient research to do any assignment. Additionally, I had to go through the ALS that is available in the Moodle page. I need to meet the ALS consultant or mentor which makes me clear how to cite the reference correctly and how to identify the article that is relevant to the topic. Likely, I need to find out the most important reference to find out if each sentence or paragraph are supporting my argument or not.

Overall, after completing this assignment and reading the feedback from the lecturer I had to attend a mentor or ALS consultant to get the ideas for doing the essay. I must go through the maps available on Moodle and go through the essay plan template to find out the three main three key points that supports me to build my argument. As I was informed to redo the essay, Jeannie also text me an email to visit her and will help me on re doing my essay. From now for future assignments, I will always use ALS guide to do any assignments, do more research and use academic sources correctly.