Summary:
Instructions and Submission
- Worth 15% of final grade
- Due no later than 11:00 p.m. on Sunday of Unit 3 or as directed by your professor
Late Submission Policy
- This assignment is subject to the Late Submission penalty policy, namely 5% per day for three days.
- This page will close and will not allow further submissions after this Late Submission period has expired.
- In the event of an emergency preventing you from submitting within this time frame, special permission must be obtained from your instructor. Documentation substantiating emergency is required. In such a circumstance, if the extension is granted, the professor will reopen the submission function for you on an individual basis.
- Please do not email your submissions to your professor, either before or after the due date; all coursework should be submitted through the online course (Moodle).
Objectives
By the end of this assignment students will be able to
- recognize in formal terms what constitutes a block creative thinking in their own lives;
- identify how to avoid a creativity-blocking situation;
- identify some techniques to a personal case study that retrospectively would have enhanced their creativity; and
- use inductive logic to create a generalized lesson to be learned in future situations of blocked creativity.
Instructions
Students are to write a self-reflective paper that is a case study of one instance of creative thinking being blocked. Students are to:
- Think of an incident in his or her past where they experienced a block to their creative abilities.
- Post what and how that block might have been avoided and creativity enhanced.
- Describe these, and the lessons to be learned from this reflection.
- The report should be 800 words excluding the title page and reference page, and should follow APA referencing style when references are used.
- A minimum of four references should be included.
Notes
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Evaluation
The following rubric indicates those areas you should be focusing on in preparing your assignment, and how the instructor will weigh these components relative to one another.
Activity/Competencies Demonstrated
% of Final Grade
1.
Quality of Analysis (55%)
a. Appropriateness of the reflective instance
/10
b. Insights given and depth of analysis
/30
c. Quality of Lessons Learnt
/15
2.
Communication (25%)
a. Uses language clearly and effectively
/10
b. Information organized intelligently and in logical order
/10
c. Proper introduction and conclusion to paper
/5
3.
Attention to Detail (20%)
a. APA Referencing and formatting (title, headings & references)
/10
b. Spelling and grammar
/10
Total
/100
Assignment Value (15%)
/15
