Your Executive Summary should be typed reflection on your overall body of writte

Your Executive Summary should be typed reflection on your overall body of written
work this semester and its impact on you as a social worker. This is an opportunity to examine your experiences with writing this semester, both the successes and challenges, and reflect honestly and openly about how they have shaped you as a social work student. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to reflect on how your experiences of serving in a helping role in a community agency have impacted your identity as an emerging professional social worker. The summary should include each ofthe following areas with the headings listed below:
• Introduction
o Your overall goal and focus of your executive summary
• Reflections on Writing
o What skills or knowledge do the artifacts you have included in your portfolio
communicate? How do these skills or knowledge relate to your professional and/or
academic goals?
o Which of these items best illustrate your development as a writer and why?
o How has feedback from your peers and instructor influenced your development this
semester?
o What have you learned about yourself as a writer? What are your strengths in regards to
written communication? What challenges you as a writer?
• Reflections on Development as a Professional
In thinking about professionalism and your emerging identity as a social worker, in what
ways and in what areas have you grown, related to experience both in this class and in
your community agency?
o Provide an example of how your understanding of social work values has deepened over
the semester.
o What are areas that you hope to continue to develop as a professional as you continue
within the program?
o What experience this semester has most significantly influenced your development as a
professional?
• Conclusion
o Provide an overall summary of your analysis.
Executive Summary Requirements:
• The Executive Summary is to be written in APA formatting with a 12 point Times New Roman
font. It must be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. Pages should be numbered on the top
right.
• You do not need a title page specifically for the Executive Summary.
• It is to be written in a way that is clear and easy to read with attention paid to grammar,
punctuation, spelling and vocabulary.