Hi! After a long break, I'm back to blogging again!
I was assigned to do Issue A: whether NUS faculty should initiate/accept friend requests from students on Facebook.
On analysis of the topic, it was not as easy as it looked - in my opinion, it actually turned out to be one of the harder topics. Plenty of thinking and preparation time was needed in order to justify the recommendations. It may seem easy to just recommend that NUS faculty and students should not add each other as friends on Facebook, but it had to be justified in a very concrete way for the purposes of the report.
In the end, I designed a survey to gather students' opinions on the matter. True enough, while most did not want to be friends with teachers on Facebook, many felt that there were benefits towards the use of Facebook (but not Facebook friendship!). This is where one of my recommendations, the use of Facebook pages, comes in.
To be honest, I spent a whole lot of time thinking about the content and how to organise the report. I also found out how to get a table of contents to generate automatically using Word's formatting (hurray!).
Reviewing the comments I received, it appeared that my efforts did pay off. It was clear and well organised, and it seemed like the marker liked my preview sentences at the start of each section (it was a calculated gamble - I was right up against that word count). The findings were generally relevant, and there were positive comments about the conclusions.
The only significant issue was the recommendations - logical but not innovative. Still, it was also a calculated move - I did not want to 'step out' form the norm, and I felt that recommendations should be logical rather than creative or innovative.
All in all, a very interesting and insightful experience. I now know that it is a really difficult job to churn out a good report!
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