CYC 347- Final Reflection: (minimum 1000 words) 30% due December 8th

This reflection paper (minimum 1000 words) gives you an opportunity to reflect on the work you have done this semester and to assess and evaluate your learning and development.

Before you begin writing the reflection, collect all the work you have completed for our class this semester, including all writing assignments and anything you have written during our in-class activities. Review this work to get a sense for how you have done this semester, where your work has been most and least successful, what you have learned, and how you have progressed. Also, review what you wrote during the semester on the one-minute papers; this Final Reflection should address your learning and development throughout the semester.

When you write the Final Reflection; your thinking should address the following prompts. Be sure to include specific examples and make direct reference to experiences you had with our writing assignments, readings, and in-class discussions and activities:

• How would you describe the efforts you have made during the semester? Was there a difference in the second half of the semester? Consider both the amount of effort you put into your work and how productive and effective this effort was. How much time did you spend on different aspects of the writing process – reading, researching, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, etc.? Which efforts felt most productive and effective? Least so?

• How would you describe your participation in class conversations and activities in the first and second half of the semester? Which conversations and activities have you found most beneficial? What did you learn from or get out of our in-class activities?

• How would you describe your learning during the semester? It would help to make reference to the dimensions of learning from the Learning Record.

• Confidence and Independence

• Skills and Strategies

• Knowledge and Understanding

• Use of Prior and Emerging Experience

• Reflection

• Creativity, Originality, Imagination

• In the last part of your reflection, assign yourself a specific letter grade (you can use +/- grades: A, A-, B+, B, B-, etc.) for your overall grade and support your thinking as to why you should get this grade in our class. Generally speaking, to get an A, you will need to demonstrate that your work, your effort, and your learning have been “excellent”; the B range would need to be “good”; the C range and below would include some combination of “okay” or “unsatisfactory” work, incomplete work, and lack of satisfactory participation or investment in the course. In what ways has your work, your effort, and your learning been “excellent,” “good,” “okay,” or “unsatisfactory” so far? What can you do to improve going forward?

Keep in mind our grading guidelines. In order to earn a B, you must achieve the following:

• Regularly attend class and complete assigned readings;

• Meet the criteria (such as minimum length requirements and main objectives) for all assignments;

• Miss no assignments throughout the semester;

• Put in a good faith effort on all assignments, class discussions, in-class activities etc.

In order to get in the B+, A-, or A range, you need to demonstrate that you are going beyond these baseline requirements in terms of your efforts, your work, and your learning.

Please note, I reserve the right to change grades as appropriate.

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Assignments Form and Style:

All written assignments must be typed and double-spaced, and include a cover page containing the title, student’s name, student number, email address and date. Number all pages except the title page. Paper format must comply with the seventh edition of the American Psychological Association Publication (APA) Manual with particular attention paid to font size (Times New Roman 12), spacing (double-spaced) and margins (minimum of 1 inch at the top, bottom, left and right of each page). This means that in-text citations and reference lists are to be formatted in APA style as well.

All assignments should not exceed the word or page limit allowed: exceeding the word limit creates unfair disadvantage to those students who keep to the limit.