Writing Question

ATTACHED ARE TWO FILES. ONE IS THE FILE ABOUT LEARNING FROM ONE OF THR MINORS THAT YOU NEED TO USE AND ONE IS THE RESEARCH QUESTION THAT YOU NEED TO USE

Starting the Integrative Reflection: This is designed to

1. take your practice of purposeful reflection to a higher level
2. develop an initial draft of your integrative reflection
3. provide direction-driven, feedback-supported practice in the ability to
   • integrate learning across two or more separate disciplines
   • integrate disciplinary learning with personal experience

This is related to outcomes 1-3, learning objectives 1-3,

outcome 1-3:

1. Develop meaningful, research-based cross-disciplinary discourse
2. Develop meaningful cross-disciplinary (interdisciplinary) integration of learning to create purposeful practical wholes
3. Meaningfully synthesize specific course learning with non-academic life experiences to deepen insights into complex problems

Learning objectives 1-3:

1. Define Interdisciplinarity to demonstrate practical understanding of this concept
2. Define integration in terms of the active learning manner that you will use it in this course
3. Define integrative learning to demonstrate practical understanding of this active learning strategy

Instructions

The draft of your reflection must include four components: (1) it must introduce your research problem to the reader; (2) it must begin a discussion of aspects of the problem (something on the order of at least 300 words); (3) it must include at least one attempt to integrate specific learning from a course in one of your minors with specific learning from a course in a second of your minors; and (4) it must include at least one attempt to integrate specific learning from at least one of your minors with a personal experience in such a manner that the learning is illuminated.

Use the rubric below to guide the paper. Pay attention to the wording in each box of the evaluation rubric. Notice how the descriptions change from one level to the next.

For example, in the Cross-Disciplinary Integration section, the lowest level of competence means your reflection shows some relationships between information from at least two different disciplines. At the middle level, your writing clearly connects specific examples, facts, theories, or other information from different disciplines.

At the highest level, you go even further. You either:

• Create a new practical whole that strongly and clearly addresses your research problem, and/or
• Deepen your understanding of the research problem by combining examples, facts, theories, or other information from two or more disciplines in a meaningful way.

A practical whole means creating something new by bringing together ideas from different disciplines. It is practical because you are actively applying what you learned to address your research problem, and because the final result has real-world use or application.

For the Integration of Disciplinary Learning with Personal Experience section, your goal is to clearly describe what you learned in your courses in life. Then, you should connect that learning to a personal experience. Your personal example should help explain or clarify the learning. It might support what you learned and show that it is strong and valid. Or, it might challenge what you learned by showing its limits or weaknesses.