OVERVIEW Reflection is an important part of learning how to write not only in the academic context but in any field that requires carefully considered communication. Reflection helps us to understand why we might have made decisions in our writing and what those decisions might reveal about our ways of thinking about, and initially approaching, writing. We can then use this insight to gain greater control over the writing that we produce. DIRECTIONS In this Writer’s Journal, you will have the opportunity to think about your own reflective processes and practices. To help you in this reflection, please respond to the following questions: - What do you think might be gained from reflecting on a completed piece of writing? What might reflection help you understand about your rhetorical decisions or your writing process? - In what ways do you think reflective writing differs from other types of writing? - What are some ways that you might reflect on the writing you do for this course? Where and how would you do this reflection? - Which of the WPA Outcomes does reflective writing seem to relate most directly to and how? Be sure to be as detailed and thorough as possible, and use examples to help explain your response. From reflecting on a completed piece of writing, we could review the process of our writing and have a rethinking on the question that whether we use a prorper structure and stragety to response our targeted readers' concerning and attract their interests in a proper way.
During the reflecting of our composition, we could read our works again and get the flow of ideas. Usually, at the first time, we write freely and write whatever in our brains on the paper. However, these ideas and examples are not well organised, although they may be related to the topic. Of course, we could hardly consider who the readers are, what they hope to see and their way of thinking when we are focusing on the content of our works. Therefore, some logical mistakes and unappropriate arrangements may be easily found through such kind of reflection. In my opinion, the aspects the reflection could help us on our rhetorical decisions include:
Frankly speaking, I have little ideas about the types of writing before because I am also an English learner right now, so I search on the Internet. The types include Expository writing, Descriptive Writing, Narrative writing, Persuasive writing. After knowing these types, I can say that the most important difference of reflective writing from others is that reflective writing is a new writing which is written by the author himself and based on one former writing of the same author. However, in Expository writing, the author intends to inform, explain, describe or define their subject to the readers. In Descriptive Writing, writers use a lot of great visual words to help the readers see the person, place or thing they are writing about. As Narrative writing, it is very common in novels, poetry and biographies. At last, Persuasive writing takes on the opinion of the writer or issue the writer is writing for. * For the writings I do for this course, in my opinion, I could do reflective thinking after a whole working package or a whole essay finished and write one refelctive writing when I think is neccessary or when it is required. I could put these writings on my website or on the discussion board to let my classmates and the tutor to read them. The Outcome 3 (Process) of WPA Outcomes is highly related to the reflective writing. It mentioned that "Reflect on the development of composing practices and how those practices influence their work" and "Use composing processes and tools as a means to discover and reconsider ideas". In reflective writing, we could refect the arrangement of the composition and this is actually a process or a tool that to be used to make our writing better. * SOURCE: http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/lang_arts/typesofwriting/
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