Self-Reflection or Short Paper Three:
This paper is once more worth fifteen percent of your grade and should be a typical length of 4-6 pages (again, I must stress, this a typical length. You might increase your chances of a better grade with more detail in your stories or especially analysis in why you think things happened like they did, etc.) This final paper is due by Midnight, Saturday June 22nd.
Choose any theory we will have covered between now and Saturday, June 22nd. That means your choices are any of the theories you have not covered already in your first two papers, PLUS Uncertainty Reduction Theory or Stage Theories (Chapter 25–3rd Edition), Narrative Theories (Chapter 19—2nd edition), Critical Approaches (Chapter 14—2nd edition), Critical Race Theory (Chapter 19–3rd Edition), and Queer Theory (Chapter 22—3rd Edition). Analyze one of your past interpersonal episodes on each theory. You may also reflect on an observed interaction episode (real life or from media) for this purpose.
Describe the theory first (show your understanding by identifying the major concepts, relationships among the concepts, and the critique of the theory (35 percent of the paper); describe your episode (20 percent); critically apply the theory to the understanding of the episode (35 percent); and provide the moral of the story (i.e., the key point that you have realized from this reflection and/or what you would do in similar future interactions; 10 percent). These papers are due on the assigned day by Midnight. See if there are ways you can expand this paper from the first two to add more details and insight! Let me know if there are any questions SOONER rather than later.
