To be effective and constructive, reflective writing needs to go beyond description of events and your own associated feelings into analysis and  proposed purposeful or intentional action (Girot, 2001)

You need to:

• Step back, explore and critically analyse your role in the experience.

• Consider the different perspectives of others involved.

• Make connections with relevant research, theoretical and experiential knowledge supporting your ideas with reference to literature and research.

• Show awareness of wider issue or factors that may have impacted on the experience e.g. historical, social, economic, political, cultural etc.

• Demonstrate what you have learned and what you intend to do as a consequence of that learning

 

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT YOUTUBE video ON REFLECTIVE WRITING https://youtu.be/QoI67VeE3ds   prepared by Hull University