Reflection/Goal Paper

Paper must include a title page, body and reference paper.  Submission must meet APA or MLA Standards.

To begin your paper, follow this process:

Introduce your paper, it’s purpose, and address the issue you chose to work on this semester to improve yourself.

Make sure that your topic is well defined and specific.  The reader needs to directly understand the  issue that you will be addressing.

Build your case, build your argument that you had before you started your research process.  What did you believe at the beginning of the semester?

Present your research summary.  Provide an overview of your ‘pro’ and ‘con’ resources (You need a minimum of two each) so the reader can understand the big picture of your topic.   Are you providing a holistic view of the topic?  What limitations and views does your research lack? 

Confirm in your paper that you are being unbiased and how you know about your research and thinking about the topic.  How do you personally manage any basis and inherent assumptions that are inside of your thinking?   How could your thinking (past and present) be wrong?    Do you have the ability to find holes in your argument?  What are these holes?  What are some facts vs. Opinions in your argument?    How did you ensure that you were thoughtful and conducted quality thinking?

Tie all this information up in a summary, what does it all mean to you and your topic?  Due to thinking your topic through has the process modified your views or approach?  Summarize all the information provided.

 
Expected length of the paper should be a minimum of three pages and not exceed 5 pages properly formatted.

 
This Project will be Graded Using the Following Rubric:

Concentration Area

Points

Meets Formatting Standards and Includes College Level Writing and Grammar

30

Paper has a Introduction

20

Ethical Topic is Well Defined and Specific

50

Student Presents Argument Prior to the Research Process and Why

50

Pro & Con Research is Present

25

Student Describes How They Combated Biases, Assumptions and Identified Holes in Their Argument

25

Student summarized their topic

25

Student said how their opinion on the topic changed, or did not change

25

Total Points = 250