“First, reflection provides the reader of your e-portfolio with a much better understanding of who you are because you share how you feel about or make sense of the experiences you have been involved in. Reflection allows you to analyze and interpret your artifacts for others.
Second, the reflective process itself, whether you share your e-portfolio with someone else or not, is a constructive way to think about your own growth and development. Reflecting allows you to explore alternatives and consider future plans.”
---PennState’s website: http://portfolio.psu.edu/reflect
Some things to consider as you write your own reflections:
For quality reflective writing, you must do more than simply describe your writing experience or the assignment’s end product (in this case, your syllabus for an imaginary course). Reflective writing requires you to contextualize your experience and the end product.
You should explain the choices you made in creating this text:what influenced your decisions, what effect did you want to create through this product, why you wrote it the way you did. Essentially you should critically analyze your own writing, using specific references or quotes from your assignment to support your analysis. While reflective writing doesn’t require you to evaluate (literally, to place a value on) your own writing or experience, you do need to think about what worked well, and what didn’t. As I read your reflection, I will be looking for you to show an awareness of your own rhetoric. Show me that your writing was purposeful.
But I am not the only audience for your reflective writing; you are as well. By thinking about your work, its objectives, and the skills and considerations that went into composing that work, you can expand that experience into other areas of your life. Your reflection, therefore, should attempt to think beyond the assignment itself to how it connects to other areas of your life and to future applications.
Some Other Thoughts on Reflection
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