Writing & Communication

As a Community Psychology major, one of the most important aspects of my education is being able to ripen my writing abilities and improve my communication skills by having the ability to use various sources to argue on what I stand for and why. I am also aware that I need to show off the significance of my research and be able to address any audience that I target my writing towards in different contexts. Out of all the assignments I have done throughout my college career, there are two artifacts that exemplify how my communication and writing abilities have grown over time. These two artifacts are my Parenting Principles Paper and the Author of Myself Narrative.

In my BIS 359 Ethics & Society class, I wrote a parenting principles paper that goes into detail on what are the core values that I believe embody what it means to be a parent. In this letter, I address my future offspring based upon the core principles that my own parents have taught me in the past about parenting, along with my own principles I absorbed into my parenting ideology while growing up. I also tell my future kids what principles of parenting I will pass on to them in the near future and how they will be imperative in helping them mature into well-adjusted adults. What makes this artifact significant is that I effectively communicate and argue for the core values on what parents should try to be for their children and show a clear direction on the parent I want to be. This artifact also encompasses an act of community psychology that is based on the microsystem of family and how it connects to the community, along with how I will apply some of these principles when working with troubled youth in my future career.

For my BIS 349 Personality Psychology class, I constructed an in-depth narrative of my life and argue how the experiences from my past and present shaped me into the person I want to be in the future. In the Author of Myself Narrative, I communicate on how my past memories facilitated my growth as a person through different contexts while explaining the key principles I developed and still live by today. I also further argue on how my college journey and choosing to major in Community Psychology has helped me shaping what path in life I want follow in the future. What makes this artifact significant is that it tells the biography of my own life story and how the influences in my life and the choices I made, along with the people I connected with, helped to mold me into the person I am today and give me clear guidance for my future.

In the IAS program, I am expected to continue with improving my writing and communication skills through showing evidence for my work and being able to argue for or against any topic. From reflecting my parenting principles towards my own children, to telling my own story how I became the young man I am now through my past, present and future, I feel that these two artifacts are of great importance to me on how I evolved in my writing and communication abilities. With graduation on the horizon, I have greater confidence in my own writing skills that I will continue to apply for my voyage into the Community Psychology field.