Making toast reflection

Making toast reflection

At first, this experience was a little bit weird for me because since I entered the college I did not do any of these experiments in class, it was fun and exciting and I learned a lot from it. The first thing is that every slice of bread need different temperature to get toasted and we as humans if we want something to be perfect we have to try again and again till we get the perfect result.

Then, we can explain our faults and success from knowing where we got wrong, like what happened with the slice of bread I tried to toast it over and over again till I realized that it has to be two slices together to stand the heat and the right temperature.

Survey questions reflection

Survey questions reflection

The first step after choosing a topic for your research is to write some survey questions that you would ask people about, our survey questions were about ‘the reading behavior’ so in this part I had to decide what type of questions I would write and what are the results I am looking for, the more accurate I am in choosing my survey questions the more exact results I will get. For me personally, this was my favorite part because I like reading books and I got curious about knowing more.

At the end we wrote 10 questions which made me learn how to do so.  

Data collection reflection

Data collection reflection

The data collecting part for the survey was the most difficult to me, although I did the survey online via ‘survey monkey’ but I had to collect the data for each responses and to analyze them and to explain their answers in a way that could help me to do the report.

After all it helped me to organize my time, my results and taught me how to analyze them with writing some comments, in this part I learned to do a chart explaining everything and that what leaded us to the final result of our research. 

Summative reflection

Final Reflection

At the end of this semester I learned a lot of things in the critical thinking course, for example at the beginning we took a lesson about the definition of critical thinking, how to think critically and watched some videos about it, we also did an experience with the slice of bread and the toaster, which made me realized that we need to try again and again to get to the result I want, like what happened with the slice of bread and the toaster, we had to try different temperature till we got to the perfect toast.

The second big lesson I learned is how to do a research based on a survey. Picking up a topic to search about was not easy at first, but at the end if I want to do a research or write a report it has to be about something I don’t know enough about. We had to prepare a research plan including the WH’s which helped me through the project because it is the only way I could get an accurate results with.

I even learned how to do a survey, distribute it and to analyze the data we collected at the end.

The third biggest lesson I learned in this course is from the ‘advertisement project’, it was my first time to know that these advertisements had methods and techniques that they follow. The three main techniques were different form each other, I got to analyze an advertisement and write about it, I also did an advertisement ‘Poster’ using these three methods which made me think how do these advertisements effect on people, not only these days but also in the past.

I’m looking forward to use what I have learned in this course throughout my entire collage life and even in my daily life.

Independent Research Project (Advertising Project)

Persuasive Techniques: Advertisement Analysis

Choose an advert from your magazine.

1.       What is the product or service advertised?

Antiperspirant

2.       What persuasive techniques are used in the ad?

Technique	Example
Ethos	Women are trying the product in front of the camera, and talking about their experience.

3.       How effective is the ad?               Very effective / effective / not very effective

4.       What changes would you suggest to the ad to make it more appealing to Emirati consumers?

Bring Arab women to try this product with Arabian ingredients to give an Arabian touch for the consumers.

scientific research plan

Reading behavior
by Amal and Khawla

Introduction:-

  Technology has improved during the time, now a days it become more powerful than before, it is controlling our time and our life, so a lot of people prefer to spend their time on games, chatting and social media rather than spend it on reading books, so we were curies to know if they love to read, what is their reading behavior??, are they think that books are a variable thing?? Is it deserved to spend their leisure time on reading?? 

Research plan:-

 First of all we start to set up our research plan, and decide who our target is, or who we are going to ask, when we will ask them and where? Finally how we can reach them??

Who:

  Dubai women college morning students, a sample of 10 students in each year (foundations student’s / first year students/ second year students/ third year students/ fourth year students).

When:

 After spring break we are going to collect the data from all of the students and it will be during week 7 and 8.

Where:

At the DWC campus.

How:

By sending them an online survey via survey monkey.

Data Collection:-

  As we know to reach some person or group of the people we need to think how this person will love to answer us, or how we can accesses this group, we recognize that printing our survey and distribute it is a bad idea, because it will take a lot of time and it’s not a sustainable act also we will find a lot difficulty to analysis, so We used survey monkey to collect our data because it is an easy way to reach people which is through a website link rather than papers distributed by hands .
First of all, we started setting up our questions and made some changes in the survey. After that, we sent the link to our friends in HCT by emails but we didn't receive enough responses, so we decided to send it through BBM and broadcast the link to our friends in HCT. Finally we got more than 50 responses.

Instruments:

  We ask them 10 question, 6 of them were multiple choice, and 4 of them where text answer, these questions help us to know more about their reading behavior , and how they think about the books                                                              After collecting our data we and analysis it we get an answer for our research question.

What do you read? How often do you read? How long did it take you to finish the last book you read? Where do you read most of the time? What is your favorite language to read in? What was the longest period of time you stopped reading? Why do you read? Do you like to read about factually or non-factually? Why? Do you believe that books are the best way to exercise your mind? Why? What is your advice for those who don’t read?

Data Analysis:

 The graph shows four options, Novel, scientific, love stories and others it is evident from the chart that novel scored the highest percentage nearly 40%, with small difference between it and love stories that got nearly 38%

In this chart, we can indicate that 46% of the students read monthly and nearly 9%of them read daily.

·       -After analyzing  each respond we indicate that, who read love stories or scientific books  they often read them on a month , and who love to read novels they often read them once a week.

 For most of students the period of finishing one book equally between “A week” and “A month” with a percentage of 35%.                                                                                                                                                                        

                  

As we can see in this chart, the majority of students were reading at their homes, so the percentage of reading at home was fare away from the others, with a same percentage of 4% for reading in each of work, library and other places.

·         After analyzing the data we realized that nearly all of the students who read love stories finished it on one month, but who read novels and scientific books, we got an equal percentage of finishing it on a week or one month, and finally almost all the students loved to read at home.

  

The favorite language to read for the students is Arabic (65%) and the second one is English (30%), with no responses for French.

Half of the students stop reading during the semester with different responses for the others.

·         Based on the analysis, who read novels or love stories always prefer to read it on Arabic on the other hand who read scientific books they prefer English language , finally nearly all of them stop reading during the semester.

    

Why do you read?

  We receive different answers for this question, most of students answered that, they are reading for having fun, spending time, and to increase their knowledge.

Do you like to read about factually or non-factually? Why?

 

  Nearly 50% of students say that they love to read about factually, because they want to know more about the real life and what is happening in it , the others answered that they love them both because the first one increase their knowledge and  the second one make them get rid of tension and life stresses.

Do you believe that books are the best way to exercise your mind? Why?

  Almost every one said “yes” but with different reasons, some of them believe that books improve our imagination and the way we think, and some of them said that books provide us with new information and make us ask for more. On the other hand, a few of them disagree because they believe that there are several ways that could help us to increase our knowledge better than the books such as real life experiences.

What is your advice for those who don’t read?

    Each one of them had different ideas and advices, but the most advice that was repeated is “reading will improving your knowledge”.  

  

Conclusion:-

  Finally we learned that there are some students that actually reading books and are interested to spending their time on reading; also we improve our skills by learning how to create an online survey.

  At the end each one of us should start reading because books are like a time machine, takes us everywhere on any time, it takes us around the world and centuries, so don’t miss this amazing trip in Mystery Revealed.