Last Friday, I learnt about reflective writing. Reflection is standing at the present, and looking back to the past as well as looking forward to the future. Basically, writing a reflection is asking oneself three questions:
1. What happened? (the past)
2. What can I learn from this experience? (the present)
3. How can I apply this to the future? (the future)
From the lesson, I realized that the reflective component is the most important part of reflective writing. This is the reason it is called "reflective writing", not "descriptive writing". Most of the time, I focused on describing rather than reflecting what had happened. As I can see from my personal blog, as well as my friends’ blog, I found that readers are more likely to respond to reflective posts rather than descriptive posts. I think this is because they are more interested in what I am thinking rather than what I had done. I realized it applies to academic reflective writing as well.
“An unexamined life is not worth living” (Socrates). Therefore, I will need to reflect and learn from my past mistakes, and apply what I had learnt to avoid making the same mistakes again.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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