For many of our courses we have to write these things known as “reaction papers.” They are basically a way for a course which has no real way of evaluating you to give you a mark. These marks, to the best of my knowledge, follow the century old stair method of marking. These courses are:
- Negotiations
- Leadership
- Integrative Thinking Practicum
- Foundations of Integrative Thinking
- Ethics
I really dislike writing reaction papers. You have to somehow come up with 10 pages worth of content based on experience and apply very generic frameworks/ideas. They take a very long time and you have no idea if what you produced is a good or bad paper. When they give the papers back, they usually just have a mark and no comments about how the mark was derived. Of course you can go see the professor and demand that he/she justify your mark but they can always make stuff up.
This is entirely my personal opinion.
I really don’t want to write these reaction papers.