Outline

First week

Reflective writing

•  Below is what we learnt last week. 

Apparently I was back home in Korea so I missed the class.

 

This is what I think important for this paper. (Just to read)

Reflective Writing - some initial guidance for students.
Jenny Moon, University of Exeter

Copied from http://www.services.ex.ac.uk/cas/employability/students/reflective.htm

What is Reflective Writing?

We will start from what reflective writing is not. It is not:

§  conveyance of information, instruction or argument in a report, essay or ‘recipe’;

§  straight-forward description, though there may be descriptive elements;

§  a straight-forward decision e.g. about whether something is right or wrong, good or bad etc.

§  simple problem solving like recalling how to get to the nearest station.

In the context of your higher education programme, reflective writing will usually have a purpose (e.g. you will be writing reflectively about something that you have to do or have done). It will usually involve the sorting out of bits of knowledge, ideas, feelings, awareness and so on. It could be seen as a melting pot into which you put a number of thoughts, feelings, other forms of awareness, and perhaps new information. In the process of sorting it out in your head, and representing the sortings out on paper, you may either recognise that you have learnt something new or that you need to reflect more with, perhaps further input. Your reflections need to come to some sort of end point, even if that is a statement of what you need to consider next.

It is also worth recognising that reflective writing may be a means of becoming clearer about something. For example, you might use reflective writing to consider the kind of career direction that you might take. Into the ‘melting pot’ you might then ‘put’ ideas, information, feelings, other people’s perspectives and advice. A metaphor for reflection or its expression in reflective writing in this context is ‘cognitive housekeeping’ to imply its nature as a sorting out, clarifying process.

It is all right to use the first person – ‘I’ - in reflective writing.

Let us assume that you are reflecting on a presentation that you have just done in class. You will probably have to describe what you are about to reflect on and perhaps relate it to the purpose for which you are reflecting. But reflection is more than that. You might want to evaluate your performance in the presentation, for example. This may be represented by you questioning yourself, perhaps challenging yourself. You may consider your reactions, and even the manner in which you have initially viewed the situation and written about it.

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