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Reflective Writing
Reflective Writing provides concise and practical guidance on how students can improve their academic writing through self-reflective thinking, reading and writing. Covering a range of frameworks and strategies, it includes advice on applying reflective practices to personal and CV development.
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136 pages, Paperback
First published September 4, 2012
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Kate Williams
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November 27, 2025
Fast read and clear instructions. Exactly what I needed to start my reflective essay writing!
September 2, 2021
A clear and concise little book on reflective writing practices.
August 4, 2020
Reflection of “Reflective writing”
This book is about reflection. What is reflection? How can we reflect in a systematic way? Why is reflection important to anyone?
Reflect is to turn our thought back, to learn from the past and prepare for the future. The book targets students, therefore there are many sections are likely to serve learning purposes at the college or career planning for fresh graduates. However, even if we are employed, we can apply reflective frameworks that are appropriate to our situations.
WHY need to reflect? I can say that reflect is to transform ourselves from inside, to learn, see, and do things differently. Have you ever heard a quote stating that your biggest enemy is yourself? I now understand that to beat myself, the first thing I need to do is to reflect. Reflection helps me see weaknesses and strengths of my past person, then I will make a plan for the future. This is a powerful technique that I’m trying to apply on my job and especially in my teaching career. Fear of forgetting things haunts me for such a long time. I’m afraid I will forget my valuable experience, my knowledge, and my motivation. And I did. And I realize and fight my fear by reflection.
Reflection is time-consuming but necessary. You can try to reflect on your own or choose some reflective frameworks from the book to keep your refections systematic. For example, you can reflect what happened before, during and after action, or use the learning cycle of doing, reflecting, forming principles, planning then repeat.
I think I can apply reflection to any part of my life, but first, I’m apply it in my teaching job. I feel that teaching is more engaging and controllable. From my point of view, reflection and improvement connect strongly with the growth mindset.
Actually I’m trying to apply a reflective method to write a critical review now. The method says that I should use 25% of my review to summarize the book, 50% to evaluate and the rest of 25% to reflect. I think I failed to make that ratio, but I know my mistake, and I will improve it next time, because I am reflecting on my writing.
This book is about reflection. What is reflection? How can we reflect in a systematic way? Why is reflection important to anyone?
Reflect is to turn our thought back, to learn from the past and prepare for the future. The book targets students, therefore there are many sections are likely to serve learning purposes at the college or career planning for fresh graduates. However, even if we are employed, we can apply reflective frameworks that are appropriate to our situations.
WHY need to reflect? I can say that reflect is to transform ourselves from inside, to learn, see, and do things differently. Have you ever heard a quote stating that your biggest enemy is yourself? I now understand that to beat myself, the first thing I need to do is to reflect. Reflection helps me see weaknesses and strengths of my past person, then I will make a plan for the future. This is a powerful technique that I’m trying to apply on my job and especially in my teaching career. Fear of forgetting things haunts me for such a long time. I’m afraid I will forget my valuable experience, my knowledge, and my motivation. And I did. And I realize and fight my fear by reflection.
Reflection is time-consuming but necessary. You can try to reflect on your own or choose some reflective frameworks from the book to keep your refections systematic. For example, you can reflect what happened before, during and after action, or use the learning cycle of doing, reflecting, forming principles, planning then repeat.
I think I can apply reflection to any part of my life, but first, I’m apply it in my teaching job. I feel that teaching is more engaging and controllable. From my point of view, reflection and improvement connect strongly with the growth mindset.
Actually I’m trying to apply a reflective method to write a critical review now. The method says that I should use 25% of my review to summarize the book, 50% to evaluate and the rest of 25% to reflect. I think I failed to make that ratio, but I know my mistake, and I will improve it next time, because I am reflecting on my writing.
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January 8, 2024
Background reading for a course at work. A nice summary of reflective writing in an academic setting.
April 5, 2015
Good introduction to reflective writing.
September 24, 2024
Read for uni (PY1LAL)
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