Reflective report
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| Purpose of the assignment: The main aim of this assignment is to enable students to critically reflect on their learning journey throughout the module, which triggers their ability to self-assess themselves, and evaluate not only how they can work in teams, but to understand the cultural differences that are inherent in a multi-cultural setting
Description of the assignment: This is an individual reflective report and requires students to recall or reflect on what happened throughout the learning journey of the module. This reflective report has a word count limit of 800 words. It is vital for students to follow an evaluative approach in writing their reports by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses, and potential areas of improvements. It is also vital for students to use examples to back up their arguments, as that serves as evidence to support their arguments. This report accounts for 30% of the overall grade. It is important to note that, the use of references and citations are not mandatory for this assignment, but useful for either strengthening an argument or supporting a statement made. The use of citations and references are vital as long as they consistently support your argument/statement. A step by step plan of what is expected from students to write in the report is presented below:
(a) Introduction: students are expected to introduce their report by briefly discussing the expected content of the essay (100 words) (b) Self-awareness: this presents students with the opportunity to reflect on how the see themselves as colleagues do and highlight what they have learnt about themselves throughout the module. It is important to emphasise your strengths and weaknesses (150 words) (c) Teamwork: teamwork will be a fundamental part of your life as a professional after graduation and reflecting on how you fitted in your team is very important. It is important to highlight the issues you encountered in the team as well as the good things you have learnt about team work (150 words) (d) Perspective of culture: this aspect links with your working in a team discussed in section (c) above. It is essential to note that cultural differences and similarities do exist when working together as a team. Highlight the cultural similarities and differences you experienced as a team member and state how it impacted on the group’s progress (150 words) (e) Research skills: Researching is a fundamental part of academic life and understanding their daily applications is an important part of your learning journey. Reflect on the research skills you have learnt throughout the module, including referencing, citing and searching literature and discussing how it has influenced your learning. (100 words) (f) Personal development plan: In discussing the issues above, you must have highlighted certain weaknesses in your character as an individual. It is important to develop a plan and discuss how you will address those weaknesses going forward. As individuals, we all have weaknesses and learning how to eradicate or curb their impacts on our lives is a fundamental part of our learning curve. (100 words) (g) Conclusion: like all reports, it is important to make a concluding statement on the issues you have discussed. It is important to highlight the key issues that you consider important and justify their usefulness. (50 words)
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