Critical reflection paper (LAW).
Description WRITING THE CRITICAL REFLECTION PAPER A critical reflection paper is generally a piece of work that critiques and analyzes a piece or many pieces of writing on a theme. The critical reflection paper is also a commentary on the overall arguments proposed by these authors. Your reflection paper has two missions: I. to summarize an author’s or authors’ main ideas and II. to respond to their main ideas with reactions based on your synthesis and arguments, using real-world examples of regulation and evidence-based research to back your arguments. Your paper must be written under the following specific guidelines: • You must use 12 point, Times New Roman font; • Your paper must be between 5 and 6 pages; • You must number your pages; • You must cite your sources and use a legitimate citation style. • Please be consistent throughout your paper and also include a bibliography; • You must have a clear thesis statement, somewhere between 1 and 2 sentences long; • You must use proper grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling. Please use italics and quotations when necessary; i.e. when referencing legislation and articles. Introduction: a) The hook: you should be able to capture the reader’s attention in a short preview of what you will be writing about. Example: This paper is a short analysis of the legitimacy of practices employed in dealing with terror suspects by the United States administration, based on the work undertaken by Fleur Johns in Guantánamo Bay and the Annihilation of the Exception, William Scheuerman in Carl Schmitt and the Road to Abu Ghraib and Emergency Powers on questions around the ‘global war on terror’. b) The reflective essay thesis statement should include a brief statement of what your essay is going to be about. Example: The academic reflection and arguments on the idea of exceptionalism, as employed in practices that regulate individuals captured in the process of the ‘global war on terror’, intrigued me the most. to detention, such individuals are constantly placed outside legal norms
