Personal Essay requirements

• Explore and explain, with appropriate examples from your own life, your understanding of the psychosynthesis models and maps introduced during the Foundation Year.
• Demonstrate your knowledge of the key elements of psychosynthesis theory
• How you relate it to your personal life
• You may wish to focus in more detail on 1 or 2 specific concepts
• A description and explanation of ‘bi-focal’ vision and its meaning in terms of the ‘two-dimensions of growth’ model, from the perspective of personality and soul.
• The inter-relationship between body, feelings, mind
• Provide evidence of suitably critical reading around the topics chosen with a minimum of 6 references from the reading list supplied and your own research.
• draw upon examples from your own life and your experience on the course
• demonstrate an understanding of your own life, self and psychospiritual process from the perspective of the psychosynthesis model and concepts taught during the programme.
• 2000 words (+-10%)
• This is my understanding and this is my experience
• Talk from the “I” like in RD

Marking Criteria

Best possible grade

• Understanding and coverage of a number of aspects of the topic, showing relation and integration of the aspects into a coherent whole, and drawing on aspects of relevant knowledge outside of the topic in question
• Student is able to use what they have learned in order to construct their own understanding, to reflect on their own practice, and evaluate their decisions made in terms of theory
• High level of abstract thinking original ideas understanding is generalised and applied to new contexts ideas drawn to conclusions highly reflective sharply perceived generalised from personal experience shows metacognitive understanding goes beyond what has been given the whole is conceptualised at a higher level of abstraction than in purely relational terms
• Generate, theorise, generalise, hypothesise, reflect, evidence of significant personal engagement with the topic and effort to go beyond the given
• The relevant elements are integrated into a structure, and the whole is generalised to a related domain of knowledge

Written work

Presentation, format, and style (10%)

• Reader friendliness, attention to detail
• Legibility and audibility/visibility
• Clean copy with no tracked changes
• Spelling
• Grammar and punctuation
• Accuracy and thoroughness
• Referencing format
• Word count
• Title, page numbers, and cover page
• Word Protected document “Student Number PT0000 FDN Grp(number) PE”

Structure and development (10%)

• Planned logically, signposted
• Appropriateness
• Sequencing and progression
• Coherence and planning

Content, argument, and analysis (80%)

• No major, relevant or important aspects of theory have been omitted, Sound evidence for the support of assertions where relevant
• Relevance to topic
• Width of reading and research
• Demonstration of knowledge of other learning outcomes
• Assertions and argument
• Critical analysis
• Originality of approach
• Source dependency and referencing
• Ascription and plagiarism