Reflection of Skills Learnt in First Year

For the Independent Study module I chose to undertake a corpus study and an analysis of accent and dialect. The latter investigation involved creating a transcription of spoken dialect, using a questionnaire and forming a close analysis of results. Whilst I had done all three of these aspects before, I hadn’t done them in so much detail as was required for this task. I found, with both studies, that I had previously underestimated the importance of literature in studies like these;  I am now aware of how a close analysis often needs to be based on previous literature in order to form a better comparison and prove how useful the findings are.