Guided Reflection Exercises: Instructions for Papers
The Reflection Papers provide the opportunity to critically analyze and integrate what you are learning in class with what you are experiencing and learning outside of class. These papers should be typed, double-spaced, with appropriate title page (including your name, course identification, and paper title). Papers should be at least two but no more than four pages in length following APA format.
Papers will be graded according to degree to, which paper:
1. Integrates course material with personal experience and
2. reasoning/synthesizing of course material with your examples, and
3. correct grammatical sentence and paragraph construction and spelling.
Each Paper is worth 50 points.
REFLECTION PAPER #1: Gendered Communication and Relationships
The purpose of this reflection paper is to facilitate the recognition of gender in YOUR life andthere are various contexts in which this could occur. Read the topic below on how to fulfill therequirements of the paper:
COMMUNMCATION-integral to understanding and maintaining relationships. Select one relationship in which you are now engaged in. This DOES NOT mean an intimate relationship ONLY; there are lots of different kinds of relationships in which gender plays a role. Briefly describe the relationship. Given our discussion of “sex” and “gender”, characterize the gendered nature of this relationship and each of the participants (yourself included). How do these characteristics play a part in the communication that takes place? What are the benefits of feminine characteristics? What are the benefits of masculine characteristics? What are the adversities of feminine/masculine characteristics? Summarize how YOU see the role of gender in this relationship. (Be sure to pull information from your textbook. You will be required to include an appropriate reference page citing your sources).
Format
Your paper is to be written in an APA-Style format. This includes the following:
• 12 point font
• Times New Roman font
• Double-spaced
• 1 inch margins
• cover page
• reference page
• in-text citations
For more detailed instructions and information on how to write an APA-style paper, please visit https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/. There is an extensive databank on how to incorporate in-text citations, and properly format your references.
Written Assignment Submission Guidelines
1. Review the detailed written assignment instructions on how to submit your assignments and how to review the comments (feedback) from your professor.
2. All written assignments on Canvas will be run through Turnitin to check for plagiarism. Your submission should not exceed 25% in similarity.
3. Written assignment dropboxes will be available within the Assignments link off the course tools menu on the left hand side of the page within Canvas, as well as in their respective modules as outlined in the syllabus.
4. Within one week after the assignment’s deadline has passed, you will receive written feedback on your assignment.
5. Late submissions will only be accepted for a maximum of 7 days past the due date. For every day an assignment is late, 10% will be deducted from the original point value, with a maximum reduction of 50% on assignments submitted 7 days past the original due date. Please refer to the “Acceptance of Late Assignments” section of the syllabus for more information.