The 4MAT Review is a way of responding to readings, lectures, and life experiences
The 4MAT Review is a way of responding to readings, lectures, and life experiences that requires you, the learner, to interact with new ideas on
several levels. You will write 2 separate reviews: 1 review for the McMinn
textbook. In preparing your 4MAT Reviews, use each of the 4 sections listed
below with corresponding Level One headings in current APA format: 1. Provide a
title page including only your name, the paper title (referring to the book
title), and the institutional affiliation Keep in mind that current APA
standards recommend the title length not exceed 12 words. All pages must
include a running head and page number, and all pages are double spaced. 2.
Summary: After introducing the name of the book and author, summarize the book
in approximately 2 pages. Be appropriately concise but also be adequately
complete in your ideas. Prove that you comprehend the main ideas by writing a
clear and succinct summary. The summary is not a commentary or listing of
topics but rather a discussion of the core ideas (main ideas) in the entire
book. If you miss the main ideas, you lack an understanding of the complete
message of the book. The summary provides the foundation for the rest of your 4MAT
paper. Cite the book in-text at least once per paragraph and include page
numbers for direct quotations. 3. Concrete Responses: Be vulnerable. In
approximately 1 page, write about a personal life episode that this book
triggered in your memory. Relate your story in first person, describing action
and quoting exact words you remember hearing or saying. In the teaching style
of Jesus, this is your own parable, case study, or personal connection to the
main ideas of the book. Your comments in this section need to be clearly tied
to main points from the book, not tangential ideas. Connect your comments to
the main points for the reader. 4. Reflection: This section is a short critique
or evaluation of the author’s main ideas; include positives/negatives and strengths/weaknesses.
You should consider new questions that arose for you in response to what you
have read and explore concerns, implications, etc. Provide this critique in
approximately 1 page (sometimes additional length may be needed to provide an adequate
critique). 5. Action: What are you going to do about it? Develop action steps
based on the core points of the book. This section must be a description of how
the main ideas will affect your counseling. What professional changes will you
implement and share with others? Be precise in summarizing your action steps
and clearly connect your action steps to main points from the book. This
section must be 1 page or less. 6. You are also required to create a references
page; on this page, you must provide the complete reference citation for the
book in compliance with current APA standards. Create and submit these
assignments in a Microsoft Word document; these assignments must be written at
the graduate-level and must be in current APA format. Note: Use quotations
strategically and sparingly; in a paper this size, do not use longer (block)
quotations.
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