Problem
Your Executive Summary is an opportunity to examine your experiences with writing this semester, both the successes and challenges and reflect honestly and openly about how they have shaped you as a social work student. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to reflect on how your experiences of serving in a helping role in a community agency have impacted your identity as an emerging professional social worker. The summary should include each of the following areas with the headings listed below:
1) Introduction
a) What are your overall goal and focus of your executive summary?
2) Reflections on Writing
a) What skills or knowledge do the artifacts you have included in your portfolio communicate? How do these skills or knowledge relate to your professional and/or academic goals?
b) Which of these items best illustrates your development as a writer and why?
c) How has feedback from your peers and instructor influenced your development this semester?
d) What have you learned about yourself as a writer? What are your strengths in regard to written communication? What challenges you as a writer?
3) Reflections on Development as a Professional
a. In thinking about professionalism and your emerging identity as a social worker, in what ways and in what areas have you grown, related to experience both in this class and in your community agency?
b. Provide an example of how your understanding of social work values has deepened over the semester.
c. What are areas that you hope to continue to develop as a professional as you continue within the program?
d. What experience this semester has most significantly influenced your development as a professional?
4) Conclusion
a. Provide an overall summary of your analysis.