Reflective writing is a crucial process for extracting deep learning from experiences by analyzing past events, understanding personal feelings and motivations, and projecting future applications of lessons learned.
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reflective writing is a process of
putting into writing your reflective
thinking reflective thinking is actually
the important part of the process the
writing is just a way of documenting
that this has
happened when people first start to
reflect they often think that it's about
looking back at an event and thinking
about what they've learned from The
Experience what they don't realize is
that it is equally about looking forward
imagining future events and thinking
about how the lessons you've learned
could be
applied it is therefore a three-stage
process looking back and analyzing and
projecting into the future without the
third stage it could be
pointless it's also really important
that when you look back at an event you
don't just concentrate on it in
isolation you need to take a
metaphorical step backwards so that you
can see it in the context of other
events and other
learning these can and should influence
your Viewpoint when reflecting on that
event all of this can be written about
in your reflective
writing when most people reflect they
right about what happened about when it
happened often in the form of a timeline
I did this then I did that they write
about who was involved and perhaps where
it happened these are useful things but
they are basically descriptive and
writing about them does not actually
contribute to useful
reflection instead you should write
about your thoughts about the event
during it after it and since you should
also include information about how it
made you feel were you uncomfortable
doing it did you feel confident about it
instead of what when who and where you
need to write about why why did you do
it that way how how would you change it
in the
future you should also think about the
implications you learned something but
so what how does that help you writing
that answers these questions is truly reflective
reflective
so how much description is needed and
how much
reflection description is important but
it should be kept to a minimum it exists
merely in order to put the reflection
into context a typical piece of
reflective writing should have short
bouts of description followed by a lot of
of
reflection one important part of
reflection is
hindsight this is the ability to look
back at an event with knowledge that
wasn't available during the
event typically some hindsight will
initially hit immediately following an
event as a result of knowledge gained in
the process of that event this is the if
only moment when you first look back
what then happens is you gain more
hindsight gradually over time as more
knowledge becomes
available this can be incredibly
frustrating if you think you can't
change things
however if at the point you reflect you
realize you've learned a lot from the
experience and you can change things in the
the
future this is actually very
empowering when writing about that
learning it is important to not only
think about how it can be directly
applied to similar situations but how it
can be adapted and translated to other
situations for instance if you have to
give a presentation you may spend a a
lot of time preparing for it and be
really happy with the way that it went
when you delivered it but what if
someone afterwards asks you a really
awkward question one you havn't prepared
for you might feel a bit flustered and
not answer it how you would have
liked when you reflect on this you may
write about how you did not like that
feeling and in future presentations
you'll need to think about more possible
questions and prepare answers
beforehand however you may also think
about other situations where Thinking
Beyond the immediate problem would come
in useful and you may realize that
despite being unprepared you did manage
to give an answer of sorts this may make
you realize that you can think on your
feet and give you confidence to do the
same in other
situations you could put all of these
thoughts into your reflective
writing if you imagine an experience as
a wet cloth the purpose of reflection is
to ring every last drop of learning out
of that
experience it's also about showing that
you can think about how you can put that
learning into
action nobody's saying this is easy when
you first start writing your Reflections
down it can seem very strange you may
learn things about yourself you're not comfortable
comfortable
with you can feel like you're really struggling
struggling
uphill however when it becomes a regular activity
activity
it can feel perfectly normal and relatively
relatively
easy the great thing about reflecting is
that it's very
rewarding when you realize that you can
analyze things and work out possible
ways forward for yourself your
self-confidence gets a real
boost reflective writing is just a way
to formalize and encourage such
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