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1Title: 003 Reflective LogCourse name: Professional Skills and Practice (PSYC1452)Professor: Dr. Laura SimmonsDate: 23rd April 20211374 words
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2Gibbs's reflective cycle (Gibbs,1988) is one of the reflective frameworks, it proposes to reflect on one's experience after it has finished, it involves feelings, critical-thinking and planning after the evaluation and analysis of the experience.In this paper, I will be reflecting on my own experience as a student in my first year of my Forensic Psychology at University, using Gibbs (1988) regarding the process of learning and developing my academic skills, my specialist and transferable skills and reflecting on the state of my wellbeing and personal values.The academic skills that I have started to acquire from scratch this first year are academic writing and reading, most students are familiar with the struggle of learning how to write in a certain academic style, referencing, citation, etc. I have not written extensively using academic writing, as an international student, the educational standards are not the same, sadly. When I wrote my first assessment, I go a huge similarity, although it was unintentional, it was still misuse of referencing, I had to meet an Academic Integrity Tutor, and I have to re-write that assessment.My emotional response was mostly negative at first, I felt quite inadequate, embarrassed and I questioned my academic ability. After the meeting, I felt more ambitious than before and confident in the future, the negative emotions were still there,but not as evident.This first response was bad and useless, putting myself down was not the solution, even though integrity in the academic world is paramount, I was still learning;
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3the second response was better, ambition and confidence are important when learning new concepts, the negative feelings were constructive and destructive, they were not nice, but they made me understand that I need to be more responsible. Mistakes are one of the best ways to learn while holding yourself accountable for them.Research shows that when you make an error during the learning process and you are then that error is rectified by someone else, you are more likely to remember the correct information, even in the case when you had not made that mistake (Potts & Shanks, 2014). Trying and failing is immensely helpful for learning, memory improves if people are given a test they will fail (Hays et al., 2013).In conclusion, this was an important formative experience, though it could be considered negative, my academic writing and reading skills have improved since then because I acknowledged that this is the only ethical way to communicate scientific information in Psychology and other areas and to the public.My action plan was and still is to actively work on my academic skills by reading and writing academic papers. In the past, after the assessment, I joined an APA (American Psychological Association) writing style tutorial and it helped a lot with my misunderstanding and confusion, I will do that whenever I am feeling less secure in my academic writing skills, I will also try to keep my knowledge fresh.Multilingualism is one of the specialist skills which promotes transferable skills that I built on this year as I started learning Spanish academically this year, I chose the
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