Assignment:
Task Overview:
introduction: After creating your cultural mind map, you will have built an understanding of the influences our experience, knowledge and behaviour have on our cultural perceptions. This next assessment task helps you to extend your understanding of how this awareness of influences on your culture can help you to be more culturally intelligent.
Task: Write an essay to critically reflect on how and why cultural self-awareness is important to develop cultural intelligence'
Task details:
You should first define the terms 'cultural self-awareness' and 'cultural intelligence'.
Consider their relationship to each other based on the readings from weeks.
Discuss how and why cultural self-awareness assists people to be more culturally intelligent.
Draw on your experiences to help illustrate key points made in at least four of the readings
Preparation:
To successfully complete Assessment, consider what a critical reflection essay is (see power-point presentation link in in the Assessment Tasks Overview table).
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 (e.g. this paper showed that...) when you discuss the readings and first person (e.g. t recall that...) when you describe your experiences that illustrate the points being made in the readings.
Your reflection should include:
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: the different parts or sections of the essay;
• Scope: This is optional. It may be appropriate to the reflection and outline the limits of the discussion.
Preparation:
To successfully complete Assessment, consider what a critical reflection essay is (see power-point presentation link in in the Assessment Tasks Overview table).
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 (e.g. this paper showed that...) when you discuss the readings and first person (e.g. I recall that...) when you describe your experiences that illustrate the points being made in the readings.
Your reflection should include:
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: the different parts or sections of the essay; scope. I his is optional. It may be appropriate to the reflection and 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 (see paragraph example on next page).
• Integrate references into your points wherever possible.
• You should aim to have 4 to 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 and sample essay for APA6th available on the Charles Darwin University Library website.