Academic and Professional Communications – Academic Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Academic and Professional Communications
Reflective and critical thinking are vital in whatever discipline you are studying – skills in these levels of thinking make you a successful professional in your field. Critical reflection is not the same as ‘being critical’. It is a specific term that refers to identifying and challenging the assumptions you make. Instead of assuming that something is true, you identify the assumptions you are making when you believe it, and then challenge these assumptions. You can do this in any part of your life, and you can apply it to the assumptions underlying all texts you read, hear and watch. This assignment is designed to encourage and teach you to think in critically reflective ways in the discipline you are studying, reflecting on: yourself as a learner – what works for you and how you need to adapt to university study your discipline and your future professional life ideas introduced to you in the rest of your course
The critical reflection portfolio – basic information In this project, you will choose a social issue from three options, then challenge your own and other people’s assumptions about this issue. To do this you will focus on primary documents about the issue – maps, drawings, plans, newspaper articles, webpages, videos, local and state legislation, and so on.
Issues – choose one:

• Mixed-income housing OR
• Participative design and construction OR
• Regional and rural developments
• Interaction and participation

While this is an individual task (you will submit an individual portfolio, and your marks will be individual) you will be expected to participate and interact with the other members of your class – there are specific marks allocated to this. This is so that you will have opportunities to reflect critically by sharing your ideas and resources with each other but your final mark will not be affected by the performance of other students.
To earn high marks for your participation, you will need to:

• Make regular contributions to the discussions (not just leave it all until the final week) AND
• Engage with other students to discuss their reflections – i.e. not just “Nice work!”
• Individual critical reflection portfolio (due before midnight on Friday in Week 14)

Your Critical Reflection Portfolio
Collection of 4 primary texts that make a broad range of assumptions about your issue. At least one of these texts should be from an Indigenous Australian perspective. For written and visual texts, include the texts themselves in your portfolio, with correct Chicago author-date 17thB referencing. For published multimedia texts such as films or webpages, include a full URL where your reader can access the texts as well as the reference.A critical reflection of 150 words under each text, explaining how it led you to challenge your assumptions on the issueFinal critical reflection of 500 words on this project, and on the unit overall examining how your thinking has changed over the semester. What have you learned? What are you satisfied with and what would you like to have done better? In what ways have you changed your attitudes to yourself as student, to your discipline, and to issues that you have been studying? Then reflect forward on where you would like to take your communications processes in your future studies and professional life: what processes will you build on in your future studies and what will you do differently?Remember that reflecting is not just describing! When you reflect on the unit, you should be identifying and challenging your assumptions, not just telling us what happened.