Personal and Professional Development learning portfolio

post carries two assignments

Sample Portfolio Format

Introduction (Around 250 Words)
An introduction section should explain how you went through the process of completing the activity reflection sheets. Discuss what your initial feelings were and your expectations in the beginning.
ENTRY 1: Date and Topic (Around 400 Words)
Provide a summary of the activity reflection sheet in the proper essay format. You must highlight what you have learnt from the activity with examples that provide evidence of your learning and how you intend to use the skills developed in the activity in the future. In addition, you must relate your learning experience to the theories discussed in the relevant lectures.
ENTRY 2Q5: Date and Topic (Around 400 Words for Each Entry) Provide a summary of the activity reflection sheet in the proper essay format. You must highlight what you have learnt from the activity with examples that provide evidence of your learning and how you intend to use the skills developed in the activity in the future. In addition, you must relate your learning experience to the theories discussed in the relevant lectures.
Conclusion (Around 250 Words) A brief conclusion should summarise your reflection from moving from the first topic to the last one and summarise your overall learning experience.

2:Pop Culture vs. Scholarly Research Relationship

Step 1:
Find Two Magazine Articles First you will want to look at a number of magazines to get ideas on topics. Magazines you could consider include Cosmopolitan, Self, Seventeen, Shape, Men’s Health, Maxim, FHM, etc. You will be looking for articles regarding types of relationships and relationship issues. Find two different articles that describe communication within relationships. These can be within the same magazine, but should be completely different articles. do not choose articles related to celebrity relationships.

Potential Types of Relationship Articles

Types of interpersonal relationships
Friends Dating Coworkers Coach-Athlete Step-parents Etc…
Siblings Newlyweds Boss Teacher-Student Step-siblings
Parents Married Romantic Pre-dating

Potential Types of Issues Communication issue or quality
Gender Love Maintaining relationships Culture/Race Dating
Male-male Romance Dissolving/terminating Trust Disclosure
Female-female Conflict Listening Jealousy Secrets
Male-female Attraction Self-concept Cheating Humor
Sexuality/Sex Non-verbal Perceptual Differences

Step 2:
Do the Scholarly Research Once you have found two magazine articles that interest you, you will then look through scholarly research sources (journal articles or other communication texts) for information you can use to prove or disprove the information given in the magazine articles. We will discuss in class what is considered to be scholarly research, along with some techniques to find articles.

Step 3:
Write the Paper Here is an outline of what should be included in your paper (page lengths are just suggestions).

Introduction (1 pages)
• Include a brief overview of what magazines and what topics your paper will cover.
• Include any interest you might have in the topics covered.
• Why is this topic is important to be studied? (i.e., What is the universal theme? So what? Who cares?)
• What do you propose you’ll do in this paper? (What’s the road map?)

Discussion of Magazine Article 1 and Scholarly Research Regarding It (2 pages)
• Discuss the content of each of your first magazine article
• Discuss the scholarly research you found that proves/disproves the content of the magazine article
Discussion of Magazine Article 2 and Scholarly Research Regarding It (2 pages)
• Discuss the content of each of your second magazine article
• Discuss the scholarly research you found that proves/disproves the content of the magazine article
Discussion of General Observations about what You Learned from the Paper (1 page)
• Include any additional thoughts you have about themes discovered from examining both magazine articles and the research regarding them.
Conclusion (1/2 page)
• Review what you’ve done in this paper/for this project. That is, restate your road map—the question, the answer, the highlights of the research and your experience, discussion, etc.
• Then, end with the significance of the project. Why does any of this (the project, the question, the answer) matter??? What can be gained from reading this or knowing this?

Add your bibliography (in MLA it’s called Works Cited, in APA it’s called References).
Add a cover page if it appropriate to the style you are using.
Double check your in-text citations.
Edit your paper (have the Writing Center take a look at it for you!).

Noting your sources Remember, your final paper will include attaching your final, updated, precise bibliography in either MLA or APA style (which corresponds to the citation style you’ve chosen to write your paper in) to the end of your paper. This is a serious and formal research paper and thus demands proper attribution of expert thought and word. You must cite all of the sources listed on your bibliography in your paper. If you fail to cite sources in your paper and/or fail to turn in a bibliography with your paper, you will automatically fail the paper. Without research and documentation, this is not a research paper and thus will receive a zero.

Research Relationship