In this blog post I am going to summarize the video we watched in class about reflective writing. I will then tell you about my experience I have had this semester with reflective writing.
Reflective writing is documenting your reflective thinking. It is a three-stage process. It is about looking back, analyzing, and applying the knowledge in the future. Instead of just descriptive writing, you should write about your thoughts and feelings, during, after, and since. You also need to look at how it made you feel, why you did it that way, how you will change it in the future. You should use a small amount of description and a large amount of reflection. Description should be used just to put the reflection into context. Hindsight is important to look back on the event and use the information to change things in the future. That way you can use the knowledge to adapt to other situations. Reflection is trying to get every bit out of your learning. It is difficult when you start reflecting but will become easier with time and it is very rewarding and builds self-confidence. I have found reflective writing to be very difficult for me. I find myself falling into the trap of being too descriptive and not digging deeper into my thoughts and feelings about my writing. On Tuesday in class after we watched the video, I went back and worked on my reflective writing about my research paper process. When I originally wrote this blog, I just answered the questions that Dr. Mangini had put in the instructions. I did not really do a good job in reflecting on what I had learned. It wasn’t until I went back and tried to reflect on what I had learned that I started to appreciate the process of reflective writing. It is difficult for me to write about the errors that I had made and how I will work to avoid them in the future. I think this is because I equate errors to weakness and I am very insecure with acknowledging weakness. I need to learn to accept the fact that I may make some mistakes so that I can learn. If I can accept these mistakes and reflect on how to use them in the learning process it will make me a better student in the future.
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The assignment for my English Composition 1 class was to read and choose three quotes from the following articles: Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray), The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova), and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Ann Lamott). I was then to add three quotes of my own to this blog. Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
“Don’t look back. Yes, the draft needs fixing. But first it needs writing.” Don Murray “Be patient, listen quietly, the writing will come. The voice of the writing will tell you what to do.” Don Murray “Writing is primarily not a matter of talent, of dedication, of vision, of vocabulary, of style, but simply a matter of sitting. The writer is a person who writes.” Don Murray The Daily Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” E.B. White “I’m always in a hurry to get going, though in general I dislike starting the day.” Simone de Beauvoir “Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.” Ernest Hemingway Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) “You don’t have to see where you are going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you.” (Anne Lamott) “the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.” (Anne Lamott) “I don’t think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good enough at it, and I don’t think you have time to waste on someone who does not respond to you with kindness and respect.” (Anne Lamott) My own writing process Don’t Panic. Breath and know you can do this. Just write the first sentence. Get up and get a treat. There are much larger obstacles in life than this. |
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