Reflection Essay
Overview: In this assignment, you will write a reflection essay that explores how you chose to incorporate feedback on your argument, your exploration of the issue, and your source integration in the persuasive essay, as well as how your incorporation of resources supported your claim. Additionally, you will note any challenges you faced in incorporating resources and developing your argument throughout the writing process.
Prompt: Previously, you identified an issue in your current major, a major you are interested in pursuing, or your field of work. You then established an argument and supported that argument with research and relevant evidence. In this assignment, you will reflect on how you chose to incorporate feedback concerning your argument, your exploration of the issue, and your integration of sources. Additionally, you will note any challenges you faced in incorporating resources and developing your argument throughout the writing process.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Reflection: Each response should be one fully developed paragraph in length (5–8 sentences).
What peer-review feedback did you choose to incorporate concerning your argument and why?
What challenges did you face in developing your argument? What could you have done differently?
What peer-review feedback did you choose to incorporate concerning your exploration of the issue and why?
What peer-review feedback did you choose to incorporate concerning your effective source integration and why?
What writing strategies were most effective in supporting your argument, given your audience, subject, and purpose?
Sample Solution
While clinical psychology has undergone significant changes over the past one and a half centuries, the overriding objective to help people and furthering scientific understanding have remained static worldwide. The relatively recent changes in the field, including the increasing need for mental health services, the dissemination of managed care systems, the prospect of prescription privileges for psychologists in more places, the focus on multiculturalism and diversity, and the intense focus and debate about evidence-based practice, all suggest that the field of clinical psychology has entered a new era. In retrospect, clinical psychology appears different from what it was two decades ago, and it is expected to change the next decade
