Example Of A Critical Reflection

I would like this reflection to serve as an opportunity to explain the lack of fluidity in my portfolio and seemingly disjointed writing process. Deciding how to organize my portfolio was a simultaneously easy and difficult task. Easy in the sense I knew my portfolio should in no way focus on the actual content of my final research paper, considering I was not exactly supportive of the way it turned out, and difficult in the sense I had no idea how else to organize it. Through class discussions, I arrived at the conclusion to focus my final portfolio on the writing process itself. I wanted to give the viewer a greater understanding of the decisions I made, the factors that influenced them, and give them a chance to explore and recognize the many setbacks I encountered. Over the duration of this assignment’s progression, I struggled …show more content…
Originally, I wanted to focus my research topic on the idea of organized religion because religion genuinely confuses me. I saw this research paper as an opportunity to learn more about various religions, possibly comparing multiple, which I found vastly intriguing. However, my brainstorming session came up fairly short, and I remained unsure of how to proceed and explore the topic further. Through meeting with my professor, I decided to write about the psychology of religion, illustrated in my proposal. I legitimately desired to research this, but found it extremely difficult to conjure up a functioning thesis. Specifically, I could not devise an argument about the psychology of organized religion. The paper would have been purely analytical, something I was not comfortable with because I believed an argument was necessary for a compelling paper. For approximately a week, I struggled to write a thesis, and finally decided to switch topics, while maintaining one that still pertained to