...and I had time in between the drafts to think about what I wanted to add. I enjoyed reading the short stories by King and Lamott at the start of the assignment because they opened my eyes to possible ways I could re-examine my writing experience and how I can learn from previous work. From this process, I learned how important reflection can be in improving my work. I believe asking myself reflective questions will add another dimension to my writing and enhance my development as a writer. If I am able to use reflection more often in my writing process, I will be able to clearly develop a sense of purpose, figure out who my readers are, determine what effect I want to have on the audience, establish revising goals, and polish my writing diction and style. Incorporating these aspects into my writing process for future assignments will allow me to become a stronger writer and independent learner. However, I did find it difficult to tackle the areas I need to improve upon because it was unfamiliar territory. I found writing about my emotions and opinions of my past composition very strange, which in the past is something I tend to from in my writing. Even though I was ambivalent about refining these areas, I understand that including more personal opinion is the key factor in further improving my writing...
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...12/05/13 Reflection on my first year at University Gibbs reflective model (1988) will be used. And I will discuss my first year in University. And the opportunities that I have been given in order to enhanced my skills, abilities, awareness and understanding of my role Reflection Semester I started this course as a student As my first semester is coming to an end, This way of learning is completely different to anything I have done before. As a high school student over thirty five years ago, I learnt everything parrot fashion and was assessed by examination only - I lost interest very quickly. So to experience this different way of learning will encourage me to be more creative in my work, my confidence is improving and I am pleased with my performance in my first year though I did feel particularly anxious, stretched and challenged. I have gained knowledge on essay writing, referencing and a variety of research methods which have all been helpful. I see these skills as the basic tools I will need to progress through my course and complete the foundation degree and hopefully, these will be transferable Productive and rewarding. My first year has made me become more positive when accepting ideas from others. I learnt it is okay to say if you do not think somebody’s suggestion will work but in doing so I need to give my reasons and suggest an alternative. My studying and my work based learning has helped me greatly with communication, problem solving and critical thinking...
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...Proprioceptive Writing In Writing the Mind Alive, the authors assert that “[i]f you practice Proprioceptive Writing, you’ll develop an awareness of the sound of your thinking. You’ll begin to imagine your thoughts as a persona with a voice” (Metcalf & Simon 16). Although Proprioceptive Writing should provide some benefit to everyone who uses the writing practice as taught in Writing the Mind Alive, the assertion that it will result in your thoughts becoming a persona with a voice is not universal outcome, as Metcalf and Simon failed to account for differences in individual personalities. What is Proprioceptive Writing? The definition from Proprioceptive Writing Centre website includes the following: Proprioceptive Writing is a method for facilitating emotional health, spiritual awakening, creative breakthroughs, and better writing. Proprioceptive Writing teaches you to listen to your thoughts with empathy and curiosity and reflect on them in writing, with the objective of achieving self-trust. Other frequently reported benefits include: deepened powers of attention, increased self-confidence, greater intimacy and spontaneity in relationships, enhanced emotional health, awakened spirituality. Through Proprioceptive Writing, people increase their creativity and feel their minds expand, one of life's greatest pleasures. (Proprioceptive Writing Center) Metcalf and Simon claim that each student they teach Proprioceptive Writing to believes “writing is profoundly linked...
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...Course Reflection Melissa D. McElhaney EH 245 Brenau University July 7, 2013 Carolyn Giddens Course Reflection The reading of the many texts has improved my reading skills. It has to an extent improved my writing skills too. As the authors took me to their worlds, I became so engrossed in their writing that I tried to imagine myself a writer. The books are spread across different timelines, so it was easy for me to reach into the social, political and economic conditions that existed during the writing of the books. Mary Wollstonecraft struck me as a very perceptive writer. Writing in an era that was male centered, she brings out some of the cultural politics that existed at the time. Her writing style, only rivaled by the stream of consciousness technique adopted by Virginia Woolf, is very clear and precise. From this, I gather that a writer should be clear in both prose and verse to communicate the message clearly to the audience. Other writers in the reading list also affected my writing and reading skills. For one, the numerous texts forced me to be keen and fast while reading the books. I think my skimming techniques have improved. I was quick to discern the central focus of the texts and go through the books as fast as I could. Reading all these literature enhanced my ability to understand different documents about women issues in society. They provided a multicultural approach to the study of critical feminine theory. The course content has proven very challenging...
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...Examples of Reflective Writing Example 1 I arrived on the ward at 7:30 ready to begin a 12-hour shift. After receiving handover, my mentor assigned me the job of bathing Mr B with the help of a healthcare assistant. Mr B has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a progressive disease of the nervous system with rapid deterioration due to spongiform encephalopathy. He is not expected to live to Christmas, even though he is only 19 years old. He is mentally aware of what is going on but is physically unable to demonstrate activities of daily living, including eating and drinking, has limited communication skills and is doubly incontinent. He is unsafe on his feet so mobilises with a wheelchair. I approached Mr B’s bed and asked his consent to take him for a bath. While the bath was running we began helping him to undress. He looked rather nervous. At the thought of myself being in his position, being the same age as him, I began to feel embarrassed too. I thought that I could not possibly be a professional individual if I let my embarrassment and sympathy get in the way of my nursing care. We assisted Mr B into the bath and started his wash. I knew he was uncomfortable and wanted to be able to wash himself, but was unable to do so. I was finding it difficult to look him in the eye, especially when it came to washing his genitalia. I tried to ease this by making conversation, but in a way this made matters worse. After the bath we dried Mr B, dressed him and returned him...
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...Self-Reflection portfolio When I signed up for this class in the summer I was unsure what exactly this class included. I was not very confident in myself as a writer because I had never been challenged. I also didn’t know of MLA, colloquialism, or any of the rules. As we continued to write more essays and learning new concepts, I felt like i was improving. Writing has never came easy for me though. I tend to get off track and write things that are irrelevant to the subject. So, taking this class has helped me greatly. Overall, I feel like I’m improving but I still don’t feel like a strong writer, or anywhere close to a college level writer. As we continued to write about different things, I learned a lot about myself as a college...
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...Examples of Reflective Writing Example 1 I arrived on the ward at 7:30 ready to begin a 12-hour shift. After receiving handover, my mentor assigned me the job of bathing Mr B with the help of a healthcare assistant. Mr B has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a progressive disease of the nervous system with rapid deterioration due to spongiform encephalopathy. He is not expected to live to Christmas, even though he is only 19 years old. He is mentally aware of what is going on but is physically unable to demonstrate activities of daily living, including eating and drinking, has limited communication skills and is doubly incontinent. He is unsafe on his feet so mobilises with a wheelchair. I approached Mr B’s bed and asked his consent to take him for a bath. While the bath was running we began helping him to undress. He looked rather nervous. At the thought of myself being in his position, being the same age as him, I began to feel embarrassed too. I thought that I could not possibly be a professional individual if I let my embarrassment and sympathy get in the way of my nursing care. We assisted Mr B into the bath and started his wash. I knew he was uncomfortable and wanted to be able to wash himself, but was unable to do so. I was finding it difficult to look him in the eye, especially when it came to washing his genitalia. I tried to ease this by making conversation, but in a way this made matters worse. After the bath we dried Mr B, dressed him and returned him...
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...His video reflection on Maglev trains was very informative and clearly explained how Maglev trains function. For all lab reports and projects this year he has demonstrated the same exemplar work and written to explain with good description and detail. I encourage him to keep up these strong efforts next year in grade 8 and to keep striving to do his best. Bany has stayed consistent with the level of her work this year and I would like to see her take more steps toward improvement. For her lab reports and projects she consistently included the necessary criteria but often did not go beyond the level of stating information...
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...Scholarly Writing Skill Reflection What strengths do you have in regards to scholarly writing? What areas need improvement? • Formulate paragraphs with central idea and flowing information between paragraphs. • Clearly define topic for reader to understand purpose. • Use research for citation and properly formatting reference material. • Ensure usage of concepts from materials relevant to topic. I need to improve on my citation and reference aspects of paper writing. In addition, refining my approach to passage clarity is another area could use improvement. How do you plan to use the scoring instrument to measure and improve your writing in the future? Utilization of professors scoring instrument feedback, allows me to track my progress in areas of continuing improvement. It also allows me to keep on track in areas I have satisfied to ensure I improve my writing. My keeping record of all feedback on my computer, I can analyze each class and track growth. What university writing resources will you use to improve your writing? • All tools in the Center for Writing Excellence including the reference and citing generator, plagiarism checker, write point and peer review. • APA guide What role does feedback have in the writing process? No one no matter what education stature a writer may be, criticism or critiquing is valuable to provide items needing improvement. Often writers overlook items that are vital in writing papers. Thereby feedback...
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...Reflective Practice – Part A Originally reflective practice was commonly used to deal with well documented problems in professional practice. However the use of reflective practice has made a shift to also be used in main stream educational practice. (Bradury et al. 2009) This then makes it credible to use reflective practice to assess my progress so far at university. I will do this by sing Driscoll model of reflection (by Barton) model of reflection that I undertook in class. Using Driscoll ‘What?’ ‘So what?’ Now what? Reflection model, along with headstart I identified potential weaknesses that could hinder my university study. After completing headstart it was apparent what my ‘what?’ was ‘writing in higher education’ came up as something...
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...have been important tools for improving not only my writing skills but also –and especially—my thinking skills. This class taught me a method for thinking and writing. While looking at the critical research reflection I cannot help but think of the word “reflect? “Since the beginning of this class, I had to reflect on course texts, reflect on the sources, reflect on personal experience, and reflect on peer reviews and discussion posts. Dr. ND asked me to reflect on my writing and to think carefully, especially before making a decision or reaching a conclusion. Why the word "reflect" is so important? What does it mean, "to reflect”? The philosopher Locke said that the act of reflection is characterized by mental acts of doubt, believe, think, have emotions, and feelings (Locke). I believe that my final research paper is an essay that has all the characteristics described by Locke. The final project includes feelings, personal experience, thoughts, doubts, questions, answers, and reasoning....
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...Victoria Barkon December 15, 2014 ENG 890 Reflection Essay- final draft Reflection essay Writing has not always been my strongest subject in school; in fact it has always been my weakest just because I had always struggled with grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc. I have always end up with bad grades in whatever writing classes I took. But as the semester is coming to an end I can honestly say I have learned and improved on a lot as both a writer and a student. One skill I believe I have improved on is the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. Another skill I have improved on is sentence punctuation strategies: run-ons, comma splices, fragments and comma usage issues. Reading and study of professional essay was one of the skills I learned during the semester. Lastly I had learned how to demonstrate my abilities as a developing writer by: attending class regularly, prepared and on time, and participating actively. The first skill I learned and improved on a lot this semester was the writing process and what it came with such as prewriting, drafting, revising editing, and proofreading. I especially improved on this skill when I wrote my narrative essay. For example I had to write three drafts, first, second and then the finally draft. The first draft was me prewriting and getting all my ideals down. For my second draft I had to go for peer review and...
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...|Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |I would define academic readiness as how well prepared you are for schooling. | |readiness? | | |What concerns, if any, do you have |I am concerned with my grammar. | |with academic writing and reading? | | |What two university resources will you|In Center for Writing Excellence, I would use Write Point, | |use to strengthen your writing and |Get Live Assistance, and Step-by-Step Grammar Review. | |reading skills (refer to your Student | | |Resources Worksheet)? | | |What is your personal learning style |My personal learning style is to learn by example, and hand on. | |(refer to the Ch. 1 Aplia homework)? | ...
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...Course Reflection Over the semester my writing has dramatically improved since my first day here at St. Edwards University. Throughout the semester I gained better writing habits and tactics, but I also obtained further knowledge on how to create well organized and formal academic papers. The main thing I've learned from this course is how to improve my writing process as a whole using correct grammar and punctuation, and creating better sentence transitions. My weakness as an incoming freshman was the ability to find my voice as a writer and develop a point of view so that I could expand on the things I wanted to say in my writing. I could create all these ideas for my paper, but as soon as I began to write, I would get stuck leading my paper into this big mess with no general direction. As a result, my paper would lose communication between the reader and myself. My paper would make sense to me, but as a reader, he/she might have misinterpreted the main point of my paper. On the other hand, my strengths in writing before August consisted of good organization skills to set up good ideas and thesis statements. I could create a good argumentative thesis statement to ensure some type of structure for my paper. During the first week of the semester, my goal was to see improvement with my skills as a writer and critical thinker. As the year progressed, getting my colleagues and professor’s advice about the mistakes I was making in my papers influenced me on how to improve...
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...opportunity of a National Board Certification came on the eve of celebrating fifteen years of teaching. Almost half way through my career as a Special Education teacher, I was enticed by the possibility of a new challenge and intrigued by the notion of a pay increase. The two-year trek toward certification tested both my both personal and professional fortitude. Although the outcome brought great satisfaction, the true benefits came as a result of the journey. Given the complex work demands and complicated students, it’s no surprise that the attrition rates of special educators in public schools are twice that of regular education teachers or that there has been a national shortage of special educators for decades. After fourteen years teaching students across K-12 with various exceptionalities, I was in a teaching slump. Since I had no plans to leave the field, I needed to reflect, revaluate, and rededicate myself to the practice of teaching. The prospect of a National Board Certification was one way I knew I could revitalize my interest and practice. From the beginning,...
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