A Reflective Writing assignment is to demonstrate to the professor that you have developed a comprehensive understanding of the materials presented so far, have gained a broader awareness of the topics discussed and personally gained a new perspective with a meaningful take away from the course thus far.
This paper needs to be 300 words and have a minimum of two references.
Please do NOT simply answer the questions below, this paper needs to flow from paragraph to paragraph
Reflection Writing Steps:
Description: Record the experience or event. What was the situation? What have we discussed? We has the class talked about? What has the class watched or listened to? Use your previous writing discussions to answer this question.
Consider/think about: What were your reactions or feelings at the time? What was it about the event that drew out these feelings? Why? When I read/heard about this I was (feelings, thoughts) I felt that the… I was unhappy about… It seems unfair… “I enjoyed..”
Analyze, evaluate: What was really going on? What sense can you make of the situation? Can you integrate theory into the experience? Can you demonstrate an improved awareness because of the event? Reason through this experience.
Conclusions: What can be concluded from this experience and the analyses from your observation? What is your key take-away? Why does it matter (i.e., the so what question)? The is a conclusion on the data/info that we discussed/learned/researched.
Action: What are you going to do, think or act differently because of this knowledge? What steps are you going to take based on what you learned? This is important, this is where you describe how you have changed/grown/learned more about the topic. Statements to use: this class has taught me, I now know.. I will be more critical on… I didnt realize I was against (or in favor of)… this class has shown me the impact of…
Format of Paper APA Style
Paper must contain the following elements:
Title Page. Follow this guide exactly: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/title-page
Text: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines
Reference List. Follow this Guide https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/basic-principles
Format:
Double Spacing
1-inch Margins
Font options include the following:
sans serif fonts such as 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, or 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode
The page header appears within the top margin of every page of the paper. The page header consists of the page number only.
APA Style Reference Example paper: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/student-annotated.pdf