English - Domestic Violence - Nationalism and Security - Critical Reflection - Portfolio Assignment Help

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English Portfolio Assignment Help

Task:  Reflective and critical thinking are vital in whatever discipline you are studying – 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 group project, you will choose a social issue, then challenge your own and other people’s assumptions about this issue. To do this you will focus on primary documents about the issue – news reports, historical documents, Acts of Parliament, advertisements, street art, art works, music videos, songs, stories, films, and so on. You may also create your own primary documents in response to the issue – brief performances, paintings, sculptures, fashion designs, jewellery, webpages, stories, poems, and so on. (However, please be aware that you will receive no extra marks in this assignment for creating your own documents – the focus is on your critical reflection on the documents you include.) Issues:

• Refugees and migration in Australia
• Domestic violence
• Equality and equal opportunity
• Nationalism and security
• Indigenous disadvantage in Australia
• Education in Australia
• Prescription and illegal drug use
• Opportunities for young people

Group task While this is a group task, you will submit an individual portfolio, and your marks will be individual. The purpose of organising it this way is 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 group members. Individual critical reflection portfolio Your Critical Reflection Portfolio

• Collection of 4 primary texts that make a broad range of assumptions about your issue (look for a range among your own four texts and the texts of your group members For written and visual texts, include the texts themselves in your portfolio, with correct APA referencing where relevant. For published multimedia texts such as films or webpages, include a full URL where your reader can access the texts. For previously unpublished multimedia texts, upload them to YouTube (Unlisted section) and provide the URL.
• A critical reflection of 150 words under each text, explaining why you chose the text and how it led you to challenge your assumptions on the issue • Final 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? Formatting and submission Download the appropriate template from the Assignments section of Blackboard and fill in the front page. Then copy and paste your texts (or links to them) and your critical reflections, and name the file in the format you adopted for Assignments 1 and 2. Submit the document through the Blackboard Assignments tab before midnight on the day before your tutorial in Week 13. If for some reason you lose the formatting or layout of this template, here are the formats required: - 1.5 line spacing, 12 point Times New Roman, and 2.5 centimetre margins - Page numbers on each page

 Presentation In an informal presentation, share your group’s portfolio with the rest of your class. Your participation in this presentation will form part of your Contribution assessment for this assignment.