Elements Of Writing A Reflective Essay

In “Reflective Writing and Revision Process”, Sandra Giles talks about the importance of reflective writing. She mentions that before she thought reflective writing was a waste of time and she just wrote her it to please her teacher, but it was not supposed to be like that. Reflective writing is supposed to talk about purpose of the essay, and then sets goals for revision. Through reflections, the students can change their audience if needed, make changes about the writing styles and the words choice, as well as figuring out the problems within their essays to improve them. The professors can also give feedbacks after reading their students’ memos and reflections. Throughout the whole essay, Giles includes several samples of reflective writings.

English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural

How to teach the skills necessary for effective reflection, how to offer support when different issues are identified in student narratives are just a few of the challenges identified. There are models of reflection that have been used to provide to support student efforts to think critically about the reflective process itself such as Baker's four-step model and Carper's patterns of knowing (Kennison, 2012). These models provide structure with a how-to path for reflective narrative. For faculty, these models are structured so that they can fulfill their roll to provide quality feedback. These aspects are necessary to maximize the improving student’s critical thinking skills. Other studies confirm this important step. Providing medical students with reflection guidelines improved reflective performance and feedback on both content and reflective ability also improved performance. Teaching students the characteristics of deeper, more effective reflection and helping them to acquire the skills they need to reflect well improves their reflective ability (Aronson et al., 2012). Using questions focused on aspects of critical thinking from Richard Paul’s Model of Critical Thinking, student’s reflective writings were analyzed from multiple perspectives. Identifying characteristics of critical thinking, analyzing the narrative themes identified as experiential aspects

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Effective reflection helps the practitioner to see the situation from an outsider's perspective, so that they can develop a better way to respond to a similar scenario in the future. Reflection is meant to achieve a change in practice, rather than simply repeating the same mistakes (Schon, 1983). Many different models exist for structuring the reflective process. Regardless of the framework used, the reflection models are meant to accomplish three things. They are supposed to promote reflecting on events, self-evaluation and analysis, and a plan to change actions in the future. This Reflective essay will utilize Driscoll's 'The What?' model as its structure (Driscoll, 1994). This model has three components"

Reflection: The hardest thing on this essay was finding good examples that could really illustrate the examples above. For working in this essay I did a short brainstorm for getting good ideas. Then, I made an outline and started doing the draft version. Then I got the feedback from my teacher and wrote down the final version. For getting advice, I showed every step for my teacher and also for my friends, for getting a good peer review and good advices. The best advice I got was one of my teacher, when I was making the outline, when he told me to change the

As a writer, I can adopt a system of writing that I can use most of the time. To be involved through all the composing process, I need to gather all the tools that I need such as paper and a pen, a typewriter, or a computer. I must also choose a suitable writing environment or place, and then apply my writing techniques and skills. The writing process has different ways and steps, allowing each writer to develop his or her writing in his or her own way. By describing all the steps I go through when writing, I really show my unique style of writing which can be different from the style used by others.

Usually, reflections are one of my stronger suits simply because I am good at pointing out my own mistakes, of which there are plenty in the first essay of the year. However, my summer reading essay was by far not the worst essay I’ve ever written, but it expectedly had some faults. While I made some good points about the role of societal standards in a person’s obligations, i stopped before analyzing much further. There were also issues with my sentences, as some of them ran on for too long, giving my essay a droning feel. This also forgoes concision, one of the two main principles of essay writing. The mistake I made that was by far the least conducive to my claim, however, was spending a sizable portion of my essay recounting plot events,

When I was reviewing other people assignments I learned numerous ways to write or how not to write an essay. The best essay that I peer edit was mostly because they knew how to elaborate on details without writing a run-on sentence. There were essays that struggled to explain what the story was about, but punctuation and high vocabulary made the narrative more entertaining. Last but not least, the writer of the piece needs to know on how to keep the reader involve without overwhelming the reader.

More than a tool, reflective writing is a state of mind that invites the author to work towards a better exposition of his ideas. The attention to reflection is the key to successful encounter either big or small problems within the written text, allowing the author to rethink and discover a rhetorical solution for it. The process, regularly used, builds inside the author a need that can only be satisfied by its application, I would add, in almost everything he or she writes. Once regularly used, it transforms itself also into a learning tool, by creating the attraction of opening new horizons for every single piece of the work at hand. This action can and must be projected to other projects as Sandra L. Giles pointed out in “What Were You

Writing a reflection is an increasingly essential component of experience-based learning that encourages students to draw connections between theoretical and practical knowledge and experiences (Barnes and Caprino 2016). Critical reflections can be submitted in several reflective forms, i.e. blog, journal, or summative essay. Some service-learning programs let the students choose which reflective mode to submit. There is no one form that has been proven to work better than the others; however, the rule of thumb on reflections is best summed up by Barnes and Caprino (2016) “instructors need to have an explicit purpose for the reflections they ask students to write and students may need to be informed more explicitly about the components of an effective reflective piece” (p. 572). Properly writing a critical reflection allows the student and teacher the ability to identify what specifically about the project that led to the

In my reflective essay, I am going to use Borton’s (1970) Model of Reflection. I choose this module to reflect due to the fact that it is simple yet pragmatic. It helps me to reflect using only three questions: What happened? So what did I learn? and Now what should I do in the future? (Jasper,2003). There are three main reflections in this essay. For each reflection, I will first describe the situation, my feelings and what my team mates and I did in the situation. I will then analyse each situation in order to learn from the experience. Finally, I will talk about my future action plan based on the analysis of my experience.

The reflective writing assignments that we had engaged to write in this class was helpful because I was able to express my emotions that I encountered on my first semester of

Reflective learning and journal writing is essential and should be inculcated in learning at different levels of education. It is useful to students and professionals from various works of lives as it helps in identifying learning areas where students lack that needs to be addressed. Reflective learning helps students adopt learning strategies that would enhance active learning. It contributes to making sense of knowledge acquired, how it can be improved and applied in our daily lives. Reflection is used in decision-making at work (problem-solving or giving feedback as a manager), in the course of doing business, in schools before turning in an assignment and personally (inward reflection of negative attitude that

One would most likely assume that writing about yourself is a whole lot easier than writing about a particular topic or prompt. However, I haven’t found that to be true so far in English 1101. Up to this point, we have written three essays: the first being the Common App essay, the second being the Educational History Narrative, and the third being the Ad Analysis. By far, the Ad Analysis was the easiest paper for me to write because I was given specific guidelines for what needed to be included into my essay and I didn’t have to write a creative story about myself. It is a challenge for me to write about myself because in past school years, I have hardly ever had to do so. I have noticed that in school, the majority of my teachers have never stressed the importance of self knowingness and reflection; all they have done is prepared me and my peers for state testing. I could write a whole other essay based on this realization, but I won’t for this assignment. Along with the Ad Analysis being the easiest essay for me to write, I also think that it was my best work. I felt that the assignment was engineered more for my age group and so I was engaged with it a lot more than I was with the other essays. I also felt a lot more confident while writing it and as a result I had no problem with meeting the essay’s criteria and page requirement. My peer editor also found very few mistakes within the paper which reassured me that it is the best work that I have done for the