Assignment #2 Reflection on Presentation

Reading Process

For understand the text deeper, I used some reading skills which are summarizing, annotations, and research background knowledge. Firstly, I summarized the text in Japanese first and then summarized it in English with my group member. This text was quite difficult for us therefore confirm the content in first language was important process. For annotation, I focused on the topic sentence and  conjunctions, for example “but also”, “in addition”, “because”, and so on. Topic sentences give the main idea for the content very clearly. First I comprehended the main idea from topic sentence and then start to understand the content in detail. When I met the impasse of reading comprehension because of difficult sentence, I will focused on conjunctions. In addition there were several proper words. Therefor I researched background knowledge. In addition to background knowledge, I thought some examples. Our group “recommendations” were 7th and 8th and Ogata and Cels insist the national primary health disease surveillance systems in 7th recommendation. I search for current example. The dengue disease is the one of example. Mass outbreak of dengue disease in Japan, government gave exact number of patients. This shows, in Japan, national primary health and disease surveillance systems works efficiently. This example help my understand of the text recommendation. Above reading skills made my understanding deeper and I realized the most effective way to understand content is teaching each other with group members. (234)

Presentation Preparation Process

In my part of presentation, important words are “intellectual property right” and “generic drugs” and those word need explanation in order to promote audience’s understanding and also we need to research the background information. I used a internet to get specific information on those words. In the fact, these words have relationship, so it is easy to get background knowledge of both.  I researched not only word explanation but also chart because visual aid is catalyst of audience’s understanding. I get those information from company website which is medical company called EMEC. In addition, I explained difficult sentence for audience. In fact, it was difficult even for me and also other my group members, therefore, finally we asked to professor Testuya and get it. Therefore, I tried to help audience understanding about that sentence and I explained its. But i noticed that it is hard to explain the sentence. I prepared the memo of what I am going to say, but my speaking was not fluently and few eye-contact. Those are my reflection points. In other hand, my success point is good chart and slide. I imitated the chart from company website but using chart probably helped audience a lot and also I colored the explaining sentence in order to help understanding.

Through presentation, the biggest our group’s reflection point is that not used a real world example for explain recommendations. Therefor, audience may be can not image the recommendation and it was hard to understand the contents. However, we used simple words and our presentation did not put unnecessary information or information that hard to understand. In addition, we did not practiced speaking and we depended on memos and lacked the eye-contact. Good point was that our group helped each members a lot and we did many preparations together. In such a meaning, I helped and pleased in my group. I am not good at conceiving the idea. Therefor, I contributed the comprehension of text. Next time I want to concern about what I reflect from RCA presentation and improve my ability.(343)