Posted: September 16th, 2017

Critical Reflection Cultural Awareness and intelligence

Critical Reflection Cultural Awareness and intelligence

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Assessment 2: Critical Reflection Essay

After creating your cultural mind map in previous weeks, you will have built an understanding of how our personal culture is influenced. This next assignment helps you to build your understanding of how this awareness of influences on your personal culture can help you to be more culturally intelligent.

Write an essay to critically reflect on why cultural self-awareness is important to develop cultural intelligence.

You should first define the term ‘cultural self-awareness’ and ‘cultural intelligence’.
Discuss how and why cultural self-awareness assists people to be more culturally intelligent.
For the Why part (use readings) and the How part (use your own experiences such as aspects from your mind map).
Using at least 4 readings covered in the first 7 weeks, describe your experiences (such as one or two aspects you explored in your mind-map) that illustrate the points being made in the readings.

Structuring your critical reflection

Your critical reflection should be an example of academic writing. As a reflective essay, we expect you to write in the first person when you are recounting examples from your experience. Therefore, you will be moving between third person when you discuss the readings and first person when you describe your experiences that illustrate the points being made in the readings.

Introduction
Your essay should have an introduction that includes the following information:
Orientation – background information
Putting the assessment task into your own words
A thesis statement/topic: an initial thesis statement
introduces and anchors your argument or discussion
expresses your viewpoint or stand on the subject
An outline of the structure of your reflection – what are the different parts
Scope – this is optional. It may not be appropriate to the reflection. The scope should outline the limits of the discussion.
Body paragraphs
Your paragraphs must include a topic sentence, supporting sentences (theory and personal examples) and a concluding sentence.
Integrate references into your points wherever possible.
You should aim to have 4- 6 paragraphs in the body of an essay of this length (not including the introduction or conclusion).
Conclusion
Ensure your conclusion does the following:
Restate and qualify your thesis statement from your introduction
Provide a summary of the key points covered in the body of your reflection.

Referencing

Theoretical ideas you use in this writing will come from outside sources. Ensure that all sources of information are correctly referenced in the text and in a reference list on a separate page at the end of your critical reflection.

If you are unsure of how to reference correctly, see the referencing style guide for APA6th available on the Charles Darwin University Library website. (link on right).
In – text references

An in-text reference is a way of showing that a phrase, sentence or idea is taken from another author or authors. To find out more about this academic skill, try the exercise opposite to help you learn how to use in-text references correctly.
Plagiarism

It is ok for you to share ideas and discuss these with fellow students; however you cannot copy and paste what someone else has said into your assessment. Your assessment must be your own work. The link at right gives some great tips on how to avoid plagiarism.
Academic writing

When writing at University, you are expected to use an ‘academic’ style. The CUC100 handbook – Communicating at University has in depth information about academic writing.

Assessment 2: Critical Reflection Essay

After creating your cultural mind map in previous weeks, you will have built an understanding of how our personal culture is influenced. This next assignment helps you to build your understanding of how this awareness of influences on your personal culture can help you to be more culturally intelligent.

Write an essay to critically reflect on why cultural self-awareness is important to develop cultural intelligence.

You should first define the term ‘cultural self-awareness’ and ‘cultural intelligence’.
Discuss how and why cultural self-awareness assists people to be more culturally intelligent.
For the Why part (use readings) and the How part (use your own experiences such as aspects from your mind map).
Using at least 4 readings covered in the first 7 weeks, describe your experiences (such as one or two aspects you explored in your mind-map) that illustrate the points being made in the readings.

Structuring your critical reflection

Your critical reflection should be an example of academic writing. As a reflective essay, we expect you to write in the first person when you are recounting examples from your experience. Therefore, you will be moving between third person when you discuss the readings and first person when you describe your experiences that illustrate the points being made in the readings.

Introduction
Your essay should have an introduction that includes the following information:
Orientation – background information
Putting the assessment task into your own words
A thesis statement/topic: an initial thesis statement
introduces and anchors your argument or discussion
expresses your viewpoint or stand on the subject
An outline of the structure of your reflection – what are the different parts
Scope – this is optional. It may not be appropriate to the reflection. The scope should outline the limits of the discussion.
Body paragraphs
Your paragraphs must include a topic sentence, supporting sentences (theory and personal examples) and a concluding sentence.
Integrate references into your points wherever possible.
You should aim to have 4- 6 paragraphs in the body of an essay of this length (not including the introduction or conclusion).
Conclusion
Ensure your conclusion does the following:
Restate and qualify your thesis statement from your introduction
Provide a summary of the key points covered in the body of your reflection.

Referencing

Theoretical ideas you use in this writing will come from outside sources. Ensure that all sources of information are correctly referenced in the text and in a reference list on a separate page at the end of your critical reflection.

If you are unsure of how to reference correctly, see the referencing style guide for APA6th available on the Charles Darwin University Library website. (link on right).
In – text references

An in-text reference is a way of showing that a phrase, sentence or idea is taken from another author or authors. To find out more about this academic skill, try the exercise opposite to help you learn how to use in-text references correctly.
Plagiarism

It is ok for you to share ideas and discuss these with fellow students; however you cannot copy and paste what someone else has said into your assessment. Your assessment must be your own work. The link at right gives some great tips on how to avoid plagiarism.
Academic writing

When writing at University, you are expected to use an ‘academic’ style. The CUC100 handbook – Communicating at University has in depth information about academic writing.