Writing Semester 1 Reflections Decide on What you want to say Analyze rather than summarize your experience(s) Focus on specific examples that illustrate.

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Writing Semester 1 Reflections Decide on What you want to say Analyze rather than summarize your experience(s) Focus on specific examples that illustrate big ideas Stay reflective Decide how you want to organize By marking period? By learnings? By skills? By realizations?

Sharing your experience... From Reading to Writing In their essays, Emerson and Thoreau reflect upon some basic truths about life that they derived from personal experience. Emerson’s words, “Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist,” still prod us to examine our lives today. Reflective Essay

Sharing your experience... Like Emerson and Thoreau, you, too, have experiences from which you learn important lessons. A reflective essay describes a personal experience and explores its significance. Autobiographies, letters, and memoirs often include reflective writing that gives insight into the writer’s action. Reflective Essay

B a s i c s i n a B o x Reflective Essay at a Glance RUBRIC Standards for Writing A successful reflective essay should be written in the first person describe an important experience in your life or in the life of someone you admire use figurative language, 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

Writing Your Reflective Essay Try listing some memorable experiences. Try listing some assignments and the emotions/ideas attached 1 Prewriting To find ideas for your essay

Planning Your Reflective Essay 1.Think about your experience. Why do you remember this experience more clearly than others? What different emotions did you go through during the experience? Did your emotions change? 2.Explore the significance. What is the significance of your experience? What is the most obvious meaning to you? What else did your experience teach you? Keep exploring to uncover as many levels of meaning as you can.

Planning Your Reflective Essay 3.Decide on the scope of your essay. Will you dwell on one example in-depth or relate several events to create the impression you want? 4.Decide on the message you want to convey.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 2 Drafting A writer’s material is what he cares about. John Gardner A writer’s material is what he cares about. John Gardner

Writing Your Reflective Essay 2 Drafting Begin Writing You might write about your experience as though you were writing a journal entry. Or, you may want to begin your draft by trying out a variety of ideas. Let your ideas flow even though you sense problems you’ll need to address later.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 2 Drafting Organize Your Essay Start your paper with an account of your experience and then explain its significance. From that point, go on to discuss the larger lesson about life that the experience has taught you. Or, begin with the larger lesson you want to share with your readers and then describe the experience that helped you learn this lesson.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 2 Drafting Elaborate on Ideas Precise, vivid language will help you convey the lesson about life you want to explain. After you write a rough draft of your whole essay, set it aside for a while before you go back to revise it. Taking a fresh look will help you see problems that you may have overlooked.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 3 Revising Target Skill AVOIDING CLICHÉS Make sure that none of your images are clichés, expressions that were once fresh and powerful but have since been overused.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 4 Editing and Proofreading Target Skill POSSESSIVES AND PLURALS As you revise your reflective essay, be sure that you have formed plurals and possessives correctly.