Reflection Guidelines 1. Your reflection has 2 parts - a short summary and a response. 2. On your first read through you should try to jot down the main ideas in

the article or resource. 3. After you first read through, look at the article more broadly to see how it is organized and identify the main sections. Ask yourself what the purpose of the article or resource is and how it accomplishes this purpose. Ask yourself which parts of the article are descriptive and which are evaluative. 4. 5. 6. Your challenge is to distill the article into one page at a higher level of abstraction. Work on a succinct paraphrase rather than quoting directly from the article. Your second page addresses the way the material relates to the course text and your own 7. reaction. 8. Organize your reflection according to the theme you have chosen to address, not simply in a linear fashion. 9. The reflection portion of the paper is intended to be different than the daunting argumentative essays and often arduous research papers. Its key purpose is to allow you the integrate ideas you are learning in the course with selected readings related to missing indigenous women and girls - and your own ideas and feelings from a more subjective standpoint. 10. You have the opportunity to express your thoughts and distill reactions to what you learn - and also apply the criminological understanding you are developing to make sense of the issues. In the end, it is still be an academic paper that you must submit for credit and you will need to be aware of the requirements to ensure that your reflection paper confirms with the expectations I have set down. Your summary should be 2 pages in length, singled spaced. Use 12-point Arial or Calibri font. 11.