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Reflective Essays: Definition, Types, Skills, and Strategies, Summaries of Technical English

Tarlac State University (TSU)Technical English

An in-depth exploration of reflective essays, their definition, various types, essential skills, and effective strategies for writing them. Reflective essays are personal experiences that reveal significance and encourage readers to reflect on their own lives. Planning, drafting, revising, and editing techniques, making it an essential resource for students and professionals.

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Writing a reflection essay
Definition
A reflective essay is a description of a personal
experience that explores the significance of that
experience.
a "crucial process in the transforming of
experience into knowledge, skills and attitudes"
(Robertson, 2005)
a key step in both life-long learning and the
development of professionalism in practice.
(Novack et al., 1997)
Types of reflective essays
There are various types of reflective writing or
essays including
Autobiographies,
Letters
Memoirs
All these gives the reader an idea about the
writer’s life experience and actions
Skills of reflective essays
There several skills that can be obtained from
sharing experiences through reflective essays in
health including:
Observation
active listening
ability to tell the patient’s story
Verghese A. The physician as storyteller. Ann Intern Med 2001;135:1012-7.
Basics of a good reflective essay
A good reflective essay should:
•be written in the first person that includes your thoughts and
feelings
•describe an important experience in your life or in the life of
someone you admire, interested in
•use figurative language (more details in the figure of speech
power point), dialogue, sensory details, or other techniques to
re-create the experience for the reader
•explain the significance of the event
•make an observation about life based on the experience
•encourage readers to think about the significance of the
experience in light of their own lives
Strategies for good reflective
writing
When writing a reflective essay the best strategy include:
Planning and prewriting
Drafting
Reviewing/revising
Proofreading and editing your final work.
Lets look closely at each one.
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Writing a reflection essay

Definition

A reflective essay is a description of a personal

experience that explores the significance of that

experience.

a "crucial process in the transforming of

experience into knowledge, skills and attitudes"

(Robertson, 2005)

a key step in both life-long learning and the

development of professionalism in practice.

(Novack et al., 1997)

Types of reflective essays

 There are various types of reflective writing or

essays including

 Autobiographies,

 Letters

 Memoirs

 All these gives the reader an idea about the

writer’s life experience and actions

Skills of reflective essays

There several skills that can be obtained from

sharing experiences through reflective essays in

health including:

Observation

active listening

ability to tell the patient’s story

Verghese A. The physician as storyteller. Ann Intern Med 2001;135:1012-7.

Basics of a good reflective essay

A good reflective essay should:

  • be written in the first person that includes your thoughts and feelings
  • describe an important experience in your life or in the life of someone you admire, interested in
  • use figurative language (more details in the figure of speech power point), dialogue, sensory details, or other techniques to re-create the experience for the reader
  • explain the significance of the event
  • make an observation about life based on the experience
  • encourage readers to think about the significance of the experience in light of their own lives

Strategies for good reflective

writing

 When writing a reflective essay the best strategy include:  Planning and prewriting  Drafting  Reviewing/revising  Proofreading and editing your final work.  Lets look closely at each one.

Prewriting

 Finding ideas for your essay

 What experience do you want to focus on, look to

previous memorable events, pictures, people that

will help jog your memory

 List people who have inspire you or inspired you,

what did they do to earn that inspiration

 Write down some events, incidents, notes,

conversations about the person/s, what makes

them special or not

Planning

 Your experiences – why do you remember that particular

experience or experiences better than the others, what

emotions did it elicit during the time it was happening, was

there any change in your feelings, emotions

 The significance – what is the significance or point of that

experience, what did it mean to you (the most obvious

meaning), remember it could have several meanings

 Scope of the essay – will you write about one example or

event or experience in depth or will you focus on many events

that happened to create the impression you want?

 Final message to convey – how will you encourage the

reader to understand your work and apply the meaning to their

own lives

Drafting  Start writing – you can start entering your story as if you were entering your ideas in a journal, and depending on the expectation for the reflection paper you will deal or address the issues that need to be addressed as you go along  Organizing the essay – start the paper with writing your own experience first and then you can edit to include the significance of the essay, or what the lessons learnt were or you could do vice versa, first the lesson’s learnt and then in depth entry into the experiences that led to that lesson learnt  Elaborating on ideas – after the draft is written you can revisit it to include figure of speech, that will help with conveying the message you want taken, you should revisit the essay after a certain time to get a better idea for what is missing or needs inclusion

The basic story

Start

Middle

End

Thoughts and feelings

Details and description

Conversations/dialogue

Reflection

Example table to help plan your paper

Revising, Editing and Proofreading

 Review for clichés – you don’t want it to express

ideas that have been overused, they may not relay the

message you want

 Edit your work – If this is going to be the final draft,

edit it to fit the need to the essay (is it an assignment,

or submission elsewhere etc – grading rubric usually

looks for structure, content, expression and technical

accuracy)

 Proofreading – this is critical, you may want someone

else to review it for you, having a second set of eyes

read your work helps see errors in technical accuracy

such as sentence structures, grammar and spelling

Examples of reflective phrases  Looking back…On reflection…With hindsight..In retrospect…Nowadays I feel/think/believe…If I could do this again...If this happened now…I learned…I realise...I understand…I should have…I could have...I wish I had…  Because of this I am…  Since this happened I…  When I think back on this…  Thinking about it now I feel…  At the time I... but now I  It was a... thing to do because…  I could have...  I wish this had never happened because…  Now that I’ve been through this…  I grew through this experience because…  This made me think about...  This experience shaped me by…  I’m glad this happened because...