CORE11-003 Reflective Writing Task
Rationale: The aim of this assessment is to assist in your development as a capable and informed individual in your civic and professional life. The project aims to foster awareness of the challenges of articulating moral intuitions, and of deriving moral opinions in complex social and professional contexts.
Demonstrating your ethical, cultural and social literacy is a key component of employability. A verified assessment for encouraging the development of the cognitive skills associated with the interrogation of your unconscious values, beliefs and assumptions is a critical reflection.
You do not have to use the concepts from week 1-5 as they have already been assessed, but you may, if it helps you form our answer. You will be marked on three key areas.
Clarity of answer
In your professional and civic lives it is vital that when you articulate your values and the reasons for them that they are accessible. Hence your reflections should aim to be succinct, and clear.
Demonstration of considering student’s: beliefs, values, and assumptions through engagement with the resource.
The student focuses on key passages and uses those passages to examine student’s own existing assumptions and beliefs that informed their values prior to reading.
Demonstration of moral reasoning
Student engages with the social context provided in the question to rework their assumptions, beliefs and values into a cogent moral argument that responds to the question.
Format: Reflections should follow the following format.
Part 1: What assumptions, beliefs or values did you have when you first considered the question?
Part 2: What aspects of the reading helped you to think through the problem in the question?
Part 3: After investigating your assumptions and beliefs, and after engaging with the reading, how would you answer the question.
