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Reflective Log / Essay

This document provides information about reflective writing and logs/essays. It defines reflection and reflective writing as analyzing a past experience from the present. A reflective essay describes an event and analyzes what was learned from it. Reflective writing involves opening up about thoughts and emotions to understand one's history, personality, and traits. It also discusses format, topics, structure, and common reflection questions.

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Reflective Log / Essay

This document provides information about reflective writing and logs/essays. It defines reflection and reflective writing as analyzing a past experience from the present. A reflective essay describes an event and analyzes what was learned from it. Reflective writing involves opening up about thoughts and emotions to understand one's history, personality, and traits. It also discusses format, topics, structure, and common reflection questions.

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Reflective

Log / Essay
Reflection Means
 The throwing back by a body or
surface of light, heat, or sound
without absorbing it
Or
 Serious thought or consideration
 Reflection of past memories
What is Reflective
Writing?
 Reflective writing is an analytical practice
in which the writer describes a real or
imaginary scene, event, interaction,
passing thought, memory, form, adding a
personal reflection on the meaning of the
item or incident, thought, feeling, emotion,
or situation in his or her life.
What Is a Reflective Log/
Essay?
 Reflective essays describe an event or
experience, then analyze the meaning of
that experience and what can be learned
from it.
 What makes an essay reflective is that the
writer is analyzing a past event from the
present.
Conti ......
 Reflective essays require the writer to open
up about their thoughts and emotions in
order to paint a true picture of their history,
personality, and individual traits.
 They should included a vivid summary and
description of the experience so that the
reader feels they have also experienced it.
Conti ......
 They should also include an explanation
of your thoughts, feelings, and reactions.
Reflective Cycle
Reflective Writing is:
 Your response to experiences, opinions, events
or new information.
 Your response to thoughts and feelings.
 A way of exploring your learning.
 An opportunity to gain self-knowledge.
 A way to achieve clarity and better
understanding of what you are learning.
How Do You Write a Reflection
Paper?
 Choose a Topic Idea. If you haven't been
assigned a topic and don't have a topic in mind,
check the list of topics above for inspiration. ...
 Study Your Subject. ...
 Brainstorm. ...
 Pick Reflection Questions. ...
 Identify the Meaning of Your Experience
What Can You Write
About?
 The most common subjects a reflective essay
include the following:
 A real experience
 Something you imagined
 A place or a special object
 Something you've read, watched, seen, touched,
tasted, smelled, or heard.
Topic Ideas for a Reflective
Essay

Places You've Been:

 The beach, mountains, countryside, or desert

 A special hideaway or special room

 The house you grew up in a relative's home


Conti ......
Life-Altering Events:
 A special date
 Failing or succeeding at something
 A time you learned something new
 A new experience
 A time you overcame one of your fears
 An important memory
 A significant conversation
Conti ......
Recurring or Significant Thoughts like:
 A dream or daydream
 A conversation you wish you had or something
you wish you had done
 A story you've told about yourself
 An embarrassing moment
 The person you'd like to be
 A strong emotion
Conti ......
Impactful Experiences:
 A book, movie, T.V. show, song, play, or other
form of media Social media post Magazine or
article
 A concert
 A vacation
Conti ......
Important People
 Your grandmother and/or grandfather, mom and/or dad,
aunt and/or uncle, nephew and/or niece, or siblings
 Your best friend
 Someone who hurt you
 A special teacher or life coach
Format of Reflective writing
Introductory Paragraph
 Your first paragraph should be an introduction in
which you identify the subject and give the reader a
general overview of the impression it made on you.
 Your introductory paragraph should also included a
thesis statement that will serve as the focal point of
your paper.
Body Paragraphs
 In the first body paragraph, write about one reason
your subject made the impression on you that it did.
 Then, write about why. This is a reflective essay,
which means you can speculate. There are no right or
wrong answers in this type of essay.
 In the second body paragraph, write about the second
reason your subject made the impression on you that
it did. Then, write about why.
 In the third body paragraph, write about the third
reason your subject made the impression on you that
it did. Then, write about why.
Conclusion
 Recap your thesis statement and the reasons you

provided in the body of your essay.

 Sum up your article with some final thoughts on

your subject, and some closing reflective thoughts.


How Do You Write a Reflection Paper?

 Choose a Topic Idea

 Study Your Subject

 Brainstorm

 Pick Reflection Questions

 Answer the Questions You Selected

 Identify the Meaning of Your Experience


A possible structure for reflective
writing:
1. What happened?

2. .What is being examined?

3. Interpretation:

What is most important / interesting / useful / relevant about the object, event

or idea? How can it be explained e.g. with theory? How is it similar to and

different from others?

4. Outcome:
Conti…...
 Typically, a reflective essay should constitute

of 300 to 700 words but it depends on the instructions

given by the examiner; a writer has to follow them.

 Reflection is an exploration and an explanation of

events – not just a description of them.


Conti…...
 Genuinely reflective writing often involves ‘revealing’

anxieties, errors and weaknesses, as well as strengths and

successes.

 It is normally necessary to select just the most significant parts

of the event or idea on which you’re reflecting.

 It is often useful to ‘reflect forward’ to the future as well as

‘reflecting back’ on the past.


Reflection Questions

 What did I notice?

 How did I feel about this?

 Why did it make me feel this way?

 How was my experience of this unique to me? How did

others who were there experience it differently? Why?


Conti ......
 How has this changed me?

 What might I have done differently?

 What is the meaning of this event in my life?

 How is this similar to something else that I've

experienced?
Conti ......
 How can I use this to help someone else?

 How does this event relate to the rest of my life?


 How is this typical in my life?

 Was this a good or a bad thing for me?


 How did this experience foretell things that would
happen later?
 What skills did I learn?
Conti ......
 Was my experience the same as someone else's or different?
 How can I apply what I learned to my life?
 How can I apply this experience to my studies?
 How can this help me in my career?
 What about this experience challenged me socially?
 How was this emotionally important? or emotionally
difficult?
Conti ......
 In what way did this expand my understanding of my own
culture? or a different culture?
 How did this experience relate to my understanding of
theology, God or religion?
 What questions did this experience make me have?
 How has this changed the way I think?
 How has this made me realize someone else was right?
Conti ......
 How was this unexpected? Or how did this fulfill my
expectations?
 Would I want to repeat this experience?

 Would this experience be the same if I did it again?


 How did this affect me and why?
 Why did I have the reaction I did to this?

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