Critically reflect on one’s own professional decisions, attitudes, actions and skills to direct one’s own learning and growth.

Final Reflection and Feedback Assessment

This assignment is a compilation of the revised assignments you have developed throughout this course, along with your final reflection. You must revise your previous work from Weeks 3, 5, and 7 to reflect the feedback provided by your instructor. You final paper should include a new introduction and conclusion and reflection components related to each assignment you completed.

INSTRUCTIONS

Before you begin your paper, review the grading criteria in the scoring guide.

Paper Organization

Use the Week 10 Assignment Template [DOCX] (template attached) to complete the following components:

Title Page

• Title your paper: Final Reflection and Feedback Assessment.

Introduction

• The opening content should directly follow the title of the paper (repeated from the title page) and should provide an introduction and overview of what is included in this final paper.

Reflective Practice and Career Goals

• Professional Purpose and Career Goals.
• Professional Attributes and Professional Growth.
• Career Center.
• Time Management Strategies.

Topic Selection and Literature Review

• Overview of Topic.
• Topic Relation to Specialization.
• Review of the Literature.
• Synthesis of the Literature Reviewed.

Ethical Behavior, Diversity, and Civil Discourse

• Overview of Focus on Ethical Behavior, Diversity, and Civil Discourse.
• Diversity Issue Related to Specialization.
• Ethical Behavior Issue Related to Specialization.
• Civil Discourse Issue Related to Specialization.
• Review of the Literature.
• Synthesis of the Literature Reviewed.

Final Reflection

• Apply reflective practice to describe your experience writing papers for this course.
  • Analyze your use of the Writing Center resources.
  • Analyze your use of feedback from Smarthinking and SafeAssign.
  • Analyze how you applied feedback from your instructor for the Week 3, 5, and 7 assignments.
  • Explain how the drafting and revision experiences differed for the Week 3, 5, and 7 assignments.
  • Compare your comfort with and ability to identify and search scholarly journals relevant to your specialization before and after this course.
  • Describe how this course helped you to synthesize information gathered in a review of scholarly literature, to analyze scholarly articles, and communicate in a scholarly, professional writing tone, using current APA style.
• Describe any other relevant learning experience during this course.

Conclusion

• Summarize how the elements of this final assignment have influenced your thinking about your goals.
  • Professional growth.
  • Future courses.
  • Strategies for program success.

References

Include a minimum of ten peer-reviewed, scholarly references that are also cited in the paper.

Appendices

Include the following at the end of your paper:

• Week 3 Writing Revision Matrix.
• Week 5 Writing Revision Matrix.
• Week 7 Writing Revision Matrix.

Writing Feedback Tool

Your instructor may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assignment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the scoring guide for the assignment, once your work has been evaluated.

ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS

In addition to the requirements outlined above, your assignment should meet the following:

• Template: Use the Week 10 Assignment Template [DOCX] for this assignment.
• Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA Formatting: Follow current APA style and formatting for in-text citations.
  • Include a title page with the following title: Final Reflection and Feedback Assessment.
  • Double space and use 12-point, Times New Roman font.
  • Set proper margin justifications: Left-aligned text, 1-inch margins top, bottom, left, and right.
  • Paginate your paper properly (in the header at the right page margin).
  • Incorporate appropriate headings and subheadings.
  • Note the APA Manual (2010) instructions for the running head (Section 8.03): “Use the automatic functions of your word-processing program to generate headers and page numbers for your file. [Do not type these manuscript page headers repeatedly in your word processing file]” (p. 230). Also, “The running head is an abbreviated title that is printed at the top of the pages…. [It] should be a maximum of 50 characters, counting letters, punctuation, and spaces between words. It should appear flush left in all uppercase letters at the top of the title page and all subsequent pages” (p. 229).
• Sources: Include a minimum of ten peer-reviewed, scholarly references that are also cited in the paper.
• Length: 15–25 pages, in addition to the title page and references page.
• Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save this learning activity to your ePortfolio.

COMPETENCIES MEASURED

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:

• Competency 3: Critically reflect on one’s own professional decisions, attitudes, actions and skills to direct one’s own learning and growth.
  • Evaluate personal experience with the first assignment.
  • Evaluate personal experience with the second assignment.
  • Evaluate personal experience with the third assignment.
  • Evaluate the impact of personal experience with the course as a whole and how it has influenced individual thoughts about and understanding of professional goals, future courses, and strategies for program success.
• Competency 5: Apply scholarly writing skills.
  • Develop engaging text with varied sentence structure and sound grammatical structure.
  • Integrate appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and APA citation style.
  • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.

Reference

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

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