Well, where to begin, as a whole I feel like the RCS unit as a whole went pretty well, the questions to me seemed fairly balanced over the weeks and the research aspect was somewhat enjoyable. To me the lectures were presented well and the information provided was useful for answering the questions, they seemed to push me into the right directions, providing me enough knowledge of the subjects in question but not too much to render a lack of necessity for independent research.

For the questions themselves, I will say that some weeks were more easier than others, but as a whole I don’t think I particularly struggled, (though I guess I’ll find out if that’s true whenever I get any feedback). Speaking of feedback, I digress, I do believe that it would have been useful to be allocated a time for some form of feedback at some point, though in all fairness I’m sure the option to ask for feedback was always available. None the less, to sum this concoction of a statement up, I do believe the questions were fair, well thought out and prepared for in a very professional manner.

Now, on to the matter of the independent research, I actually enjoyed searching up articles and references to use for the questions, obviously some questions were more interesting than others, but as a whole I feel like I learnt a fair bit, and enjoyed the process doing so. In my opinion I feel like I could have improved and done more research, perhaps finding sources offline more so than online, but for future RCS projects I’ll make sure to research physical sources more frequently.

For, time management, well, it went a bit askew at some point, as I did fall behind for a few weeks when focusing on the presentation for the end of the Barbican project. I wasn’t particularly pleased with my time management for this, but I did catch back up during the formative feedback week and the weeks to follow. None the less, the time provided for each question pair seemed very reasonable, as a week to research a subject and produce two 250 word answers was doable.

Additionally I experienced a minor bump when I realised I hadn’t correctly implemented the Harvard referencing system into my question pairs. I realised this after completing five of the questions and therefore had to go back and re-research questions to find where certain aspects of my answers came from, in order to fully reference the sources. Obviously in the future I won’t experience this problem and will be able to reference fully from the start which should spare some time in the least.

In summary, I believe that the RCS project as a whole went fairly well. Questions were reasonable and interesting to research and the time allocated was enough as well. Problems that arose were mainly a fault of my own, however this isn’t a complete tragedy considering I will hopefully learn from such mistakes.

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