Conflict & Dispute Resolution: Self-Reflection

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There will be six self-reflection activities this semester. Each of these activities has you respond to questions asking you to connect course material to your own experiences of conflict and negotiation.

You may be surprised at what you learn about yourself as you do these self-reflection activities!

Instructions & Evaluation

Each of your self-reflections is marked as Accepted or Incomplete. An Accepted self-reflection activity earns the full 450 negotiation experience points, while an Incomplete self-reflection earns 0 points. Partial credit is not awarded. So follow the instructions below very carefully.

Now in order to be Accepted (and earn the full 450 negotiation experience points) your self-reflection must satisfy all of the following eight specifications:

Specifications
SR1:	Make a serious effort to answer each and every reflection question as clearly and completely as possible. There is no expectation of perfection here. Just make that real effort to answer all those questions.
SR2:	Illustrate your major points with real (not merely hypothetical) examples of your behavior from your life outside of class and/or from your experiences during our in-class activities. I will be the only one reading your self-reflections, and I will not share them with anyone else. That said, be sensitive about what you would and would not like me to know about yourself.
SR3:	Break up your longer answers into multiple paragraphs so they are easier to understand and follow. A good rule of thumb here is that a paragraph should not be longer than a full page. Even better: no paragraph is longer than half a page.
SR4:	Strictly follow the specified word count. (The precise word count may vary from self-reflection to self-reflection.) The cover page, title information, references, and acknowledgments, do not count.
SR5:	Number your responses to each question.
SR6:	Be in your own words. In other words, please paraphrase material without directly quoting me, the text, or any other sources.
SR7:	Follow the formatting requirements, which include having a properly filled out Commitment to Academic Integrity Form. To help you with this, please use the templates for the self-reflection activities.
SR8:	Use APA-style citations to cite all your sources (this includes the required course readings) and acknowledge any assistance (this includes help from classmates, your friends and family, Center for Excellence in Writing (CEW), artificial intelligence (AI) tools, as well as from me).

If your submission fails to satisfy any one of those specifications, then it will be marked as Incomplete (and earn 0 negotiation experience points).

Using Philosopher’s Stones

You may exchange philosopher’s stones for the Time Stop (SR) and/or Borrowed Knowledge philosophical powers:

Time Stop (SR)

Cost: 1 philosopher’s stone.
Area of Effect: 1 self-reflection activity.
Duration: Up to 48 hours.

You give up 1 philosopher’s stone, and then you gain a 48-hour extension for completing a self-reflection activity.

If you have enough stones, you may use this power multiple times for additional 48-hour extensions on the same self-reflection activity.

Borrowed Knowledge

Cost: 6 philosopher’s stones.
Area of Effect: 1 self-reflection activity.
Duration: Instantaneous.

You select 1 self-reflection activity and give up 6 philosopher’s stones. You then gain the full 450 negotiation experience points for that self-reflection activity.

You may do Borrowed Knowledge at any time during the semester. For example, in week 7 you may use your stones on a self-reflection activity from week 2. For that reason, I encourage you to save your philosopher’s stones until the end of the semester. At that point, you may then decide whether to use them on any self-reflection activities.

Academic Integrity

These self-reflection activities are closed to collaboration. They are not group activities. Ultimately, I expect that you write these up entirely on your own. After all, I am primarily interested in your reflections about all this!

Even so, I actually encourage you to talk to each other about these questions. You might also do so with friends and family. Reflecting on these topics, and seeing the different ideas of others, is a great way to learn and grow!

In all that, please just be honest if you do receive any assistance or use the ideas of others. This includes using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. In any of those cases, be sure to: