Reflective writing involves the thoughts of the author regarding a piece of literature or phenomenon.
In addition to being reflective and logical, you can be personal, hypothetical, critical and creative; Because of course reflective writing courses through your thoughts as the writer. This is the reason why reflective writing is mostly subjective. With that being said, this only means now that you can make connections about your experiences, rather than solely drawing on academic evidence, which may tend to be so uptight.
However, experiences alone without connections tend to make your writing plain and may not be of substance. It is in how you connect experiences to relevant information leading to values and new learning that would make-up a successful reflective writing.
TYPES OF REFLECTIVE WRITING
1. Experiential Reflection
- This type of reflection allows you to ponder your experience and evaluate it in relation to theories applied.
2. Reading Reflection
- This type of reflection asks you to write about your opinions about the text read; make assumptions and how they affect your interpretation.
THE DISCUSSION BELOW PERTAINS TO READING REFLECTION.
WHAT TO DISCUSS?
- Your perceptions of the literary piece or the story you've read.
- Which character might've struck you as a role model, hero, or evil.
- Any questions you have about the events in the story.
- Experiences, ideas and observations you have had, and how they relate to the course or topic.
WHAT TO DISCUSS?
- What you found confusing, inspiring, difficult, interesting and why.
- How new ideas challenge what you already know.
- What you need to explore next in terms of thoughts and actions.
WHAT TO DISCUSS?
- Experiences, ideas and observations you have had, and how they relate to the story.
- Possibilities, speculations, hypotheses or solutions.
- Alternative interpretations or different perspectives based on what you have read in another reading material.
- Relevance of the story to culture and history.
HOW TO WRITE?
- Be descriptive but do not be wordy as those shall be thoroughly discussed in the BODY.
The BODY contains the meat of your reflective essay. This is where you explain, discuss, make connections, and provide evidences
HOW TO WRITE?
- Be descriptive.
- Be expressive.
- Be analytical and explanatory.
IMPORTANT: Since you are writing your reflective essay as a blog post, add pictures that would serve as evidences to the story's relevance to culture and history. Do not forget to write a caption or description below the picture.
HOW TO WRITE?
- Be expressive.
- Be analytical and explanatory at a minimum level.
Originally published at jeanillec.blogspot.com
in 2020
References:
How to write a reflection paper. (2020). Retrieved from
https://www.trentu.ca/academicskills/how-guides/how-write-university/how-approach-any-assignment/how-write-reflection-paper
https://www.trentu.ca/academicskills/how-guides/how-write-university/how-approach-any-assignment/how-write-reflection-paper
How do I write reflectively?. (2019). Retrieved from
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