What have I learnt so far

Matthew Battison

msb1@bolton.ac.uk

matts-games-reviewing.blogspot.com

Word Count – 248

Group – 11:00

What have I learnt so far?

So, what have I learnt so far in games reviewing, quite a lot actually. That is not what I thought I’d be saying when I first started this module; I say this because at first I thought I’d started doing English lessons all over again.

When it actually came to writing a review, I had a brief idea what I was doing; the techniques that have been taught to help have been very helpful. These include the telegram technique, it’s not an elephant and Kipling’s poem. The one technique that I use the most is Kipling’s poem, who, where, what, why, when and how. I find this helps me plan out what I need to include in my review. I am also getting used to free writing.

I have also learnt a lot about editing my piece of work, one piece of editing that I always do now is eyeballing, getting someone else to read through my work to point out any mistakes. I am always surprised by the mistakes that I make and miss when reading back through my work.

Lastly there are Buzz Words which can be included in a review; these are words or phases which can be included and are used to impress.

I have learnt a lot, but I fell there is more to learn myself, I need to make my reviews more interesting as at the moment I feel that my reviews are a little boring.