Reflection Paper: Promotion Of Self-Awareness And Self-Assessment

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Reflection is a cognitive process that promotes self-awareness and encourages self-assessment. The cognitive process of reflecting on one's authentic knowledge, practice, and beliefs/attitudes is an important part of learning.

Self-reflection provides a means for people to identify issues; state opinion, inferences, and predictions; and express feelings, beliefs, and attitudes. Your responsibility in self-reflection is to support personal opinion, inference, and prediction by the inclusion of relevant content knowledge presented in published works.

You can start by asking the following questions of the reading: The Humanities and the Social Sciences: Contrasting Approaches. Think about your favorite media content - do you tend to think about it as a scientist or a humanist? For example, do you think your favorite media reinforces or problematizes particular power relationships (humanistic) or do you think your media has particular effects on particular audiences (scientist). Most of us lean toward either thinking in terms of humanistic interpretations or in terms of testable scientific hypotheses.

Do you think you tend to favor one way of thinking over another? Where do you think the study of communication ought to be situated? Why?