Your Assignment
This requires designing and conducting an interview with an adult between the ages of 20+ years. It will be 3-4 typed pages. (SLO I, II)
The interview will focus on developmental issues and dynamics as well as cultural and personal factors influencing the adult’s development, including a reading reflection.
- There should be a minimum of 10 interview questions
- Your Interview questions should be on a separate page that will be included after the reference page
- For your paper you should present your findings of the interview and connect them to readings, content from the course, and peer-reviewed journal articles.
Guidelines for Critical Reflection Papers
Purpose
Critical Reflection Papers have a three-part purpose. First, they are intended to demonstrate your analysis of the course readings, news reports, or other media pertaining to human development. They can help you keep track of important ideas that you will need to review again in preparing your signature assignment, and can also provide possible topics for your MA Thesis. Most importantly, they are intended for you to give your critical reflection of the course materials.
Format
Papers must be double-spaced. It must have a title page that includes your name, page numbering, and consistent use of APA style, including references. Make sure that your paper is in the form of an essay with an introduction, body and conclusion. Download and use the Undergraduate APA 7 Template. for this assignment.
Procedure
- Your Critical Reflection Paper should demonstrate comprehension and analysis of the assigned or optional readings (including readings you find through the library), or to news reports in newspapers, popular magazines, or other media, and contain a critical and thoughtful reaction to the material.
- Your reflection should make up the majority of the paper. There are a number of ways you might approach the task:
- Focus on an aspect of the reading/media that you will argue pertains to some issue or idea presented in class or found in the course readings. Does the reading support, undermine or come into tension with previous issues or concepts? Explain why it is significant.
- Focus on a particular theme or issue raised by the reading/media and give your own perspective on it.
- Be sure to elaborate on your opinion. What is your thinking based on?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the main sides of the issue, as you see it?
- Do you have any personal experience that is relevant to the issue?
What to Avoid
A Critical Reflection Paper is not a book report, but it is a scholarly paper that must meet all APA standards, and should have a Introduction, Body (what you learned then connecting it to the prompts above) and Conclusion (that will connect what you wrote in the Body to current research published in the last 10 years), along with an accurate title page. and reference section. You must give some brief summary of the reading/media in order to write a good paper, but only summarize what is necessary to write your reaction. It is also important to avoid vague impressions about the reading/media. Base everything you say in something specific, such as a quote, or a concept or an argument. Dig into something solid. Make sure you make proper reference to these specific details. Note that papers submitted after the due date will have points deducted.