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Reflective Writing

Guidance Notes for Students

Pete Watton Jane Collings Jenny Moon April 2001

Contents

Aims and Objectives Using the Guidance Notes What is Required in Reflective Writing Deepening Reflection Exercise in Reflective Writing -1 Multiple Perspectives in Reflective Writing Possible Sources of Evidence for Reflection Exercise in Reflective Writing –2 Practising Reflective Writing References Bibliography Web Sites Pack Evaluation

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Aims and Objectives Aim To inform and support the production of reflective writing for work-based learning or work experience modules.
Objectives - Having worked through the pack you will have: Identified the characteristics of reflective writing Recognise how to deepen reflective writng Be able to start writing reflectively Locate resources to support your reflective writing

Using the Guidance Notes
This pack is intended for your use, so you should feel free to write in it and customise it as you see fit. The pack provides both background information, exercises to complete and reference material for further research.

Introducing Reflection
There is increasingly much academic writing about the benefits of reflecting on practice for everyone involved in education. An excellent description of reflection can be found in the Harry Potter novel ‘ The Goblet of Fire’. In the paragraph below Dumbledore the chief wizard and head teacher is talking to Harry about having excess thoughts! ‘Harry stared at the stone basin. The contents had returned to their original, silvery white state, swirling and rippling beneath his gaze. “ What is it?” Harry asked shakily. “This? It is called a Pensieve,” said Dumbledore. “ I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.” “Err,” said Harry who couldn’t truthfully say that he had ever felt

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