Reflective Writing

This semester has impacted me and my writing abilities greatly. I feel I have improved in all aspects of writing. Throughout High school writing was never my preferred subject, but after taking this class I have developed an interest in writing and no longer look at it as a chore, but more as a method to express myself.

Reflective practice is a key way of learning from the experience, it allows to overview the past experience from a different perspective and take actions to benefit it to yourself. Basically, the reflective practice covers a gap between theory and practice that helps to create a strategy for learning and improving (Jasper, 2003). Therefore, an understanding of reflective theories is a key aspect that I should develop before my graduation.

This report vividly explains how reflection helps one think about their employability and transferrable skills. Reflective writing deals with both description and analysis which helps in clarifying thoughts, understanding important aspect and working out strategies in solving problems. Reflective writing is beneficial to individuals especially students. For individuals, it gives them the opportunity to think critically about what and why they do things and for academic perspective, it provides students the idea on their learning experience and helps them identify any academic issues they need to address.

[1] How do I . . . Write a Reflection? [Online] Available from: http://www.trentu.ca/academicskills/documents/Reflectivewriting.pdf [12/01/15]

This reflection learning log and essay guide is a helpful learning tool for you to access when you are completing your learning log and also your reflection essay. It provides you with an introduction to the purpose for setting a reflective piece of work and the benefits this produces for you. It provides activities to help you along the way (see separate guide “ACCG 399 Developing a Reflective Capacity Guidance”) and clearly sets out the requirements that are expected of you, including what you will need to hand in at the end of the semester.

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"

Writing influences the way humans communicate. Good writing skills are essential in the working world and it’s important for our own self. The love for writing creative stories that engage the reader personally feels like an impossible task. After thirteen years of English I’ve realized that English does not come easy to me. It’s important to note that my writing skills have improved over the years. Going into my first year of college, I was nervous. I knew that my writing needed improvement. During my first semester of college, I was able to take the WAC 101 class. This class not only improved my writing, but it also encouraged me to start reading again. I look at reading as a task instead of a hobby, but I know that it can progress toward something that I like to do on my free time. WAC 101 is a class that helps develop a student’s writing skills. To measure the progress, outcomes in different areas of writing are reflected upon.

Never taking an English course in college makes me hesitant about this reflective writing assignment and the course since the structure and work is very distinct from my science courses. I took AP English Language and Composition in high school and was able to place out of English 101. I do not consider my self to be an excellent writer, and not having taken an English course in 3 years makes me excited. The English courses that I took in high school were not like this one. You would read a book, write an essay, and move on to the next assignment. Every course that I taken in my college career has been science based, so I am very intrigued to be taking this course because it is different but yet relevant to my field.

Discuss the writer’s main contention and tone (in your answer you should identify the type of text, the significance of the author, the context in which the text is created/published, the authors main contention and who they wish to persuade)

Early in the year I was diagnosed with depression that rendered me unable to complete my dissertation to any fit standard. Primarily, my ability to focus was very negatively affected, crippling my ability to do effective research and to write a serious academic document.

Module A- How does a comparative study heighten your understanding of the distinctive values and context of your texts?

Reflection “critical” because “it allows writers to recognize what they are doing in that particular moment, as well as to consider why the made the rhetorical choices they did” (Taczak 78). In other words, reflecting on your writing is a highly recommended step because it allows you to self assess your writing and give yourself feedback to further improve.

Stobart (2015) suggests to overcome this barrier in reflection practitioners must choose one area in their reflections to specifically focus on over a set period of time. Throughout this time I will draw from literature of more experienced professionals which I will use to develop my reflections moving from emotional insecurities towards an objective thought process. Implementing this would also cultivate reflection at a higher level, as the literature would open up my mind to the wider context of education.

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

This final course project will discuss the reflective journal entries written during the ten weeks units. All of the journal entries were represented of the learners depth of knowledge and reflective practices learned throughout this course. The learner had the opportunity to reflect on herself as a beginner student in the doctoral program, and maintained a consistency of level of understanding of the concepts being taught by her instructor to enhance her writing as a scholarly writer. Thus, the learner primary goal was to continue to improve her writing skills, and commit herself to search for a deeper meaning as a doctoral student in the program. Therefore, the content of her journal entries will align with her goals and a search for helping