Reflective Writing provides concise and practical guidance on how students can improve their academic writing through self-reflective thinking, reading and writing. Covering a range of frameworks and strategies, it includes advice on applying reflective practices to personal and CV development.
Shows students what tutors look for in reflective writing, what reflection means in different contexts and how they can bring a reflective dimension to their work Includes examples of real students’ reflective writing from different subject areas, including business, creative arts, education, geography, healthcare and science Contains helpful guidance on applying reflective skills to career planning, with workshop activities to help students prepare for job applications new_to_this_edition Contains more content on the value and importance of reflection in other life contexts, so that students can appreciate its relevance from an early stage; Features a short overview of academic writing genres, to help students make connections between reflective writing and other forms of academic writing with which they are already familiar Covers alternative ways of capturing reflection, such as free-writing, blogs/vlogs and other technologies Includes new examples which show how students have re-worked their initial drafts to produce a better, more appropriate response