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Sharing your experience... From Reading to Writing Frank McCourt was sick in a hospital bed when his father kissed him for the first time. In Angela’s Ashes, Frank says this gesture from his father made him so happy he felt like “floating out of his bed.” Reflective Essay

Sharing your experience... Writing about a strong memory can help you better understand it. A reflective essay narrates a personal experience and reveals its significance. Autobiographies, letters, and memoirs often use reflective writing to share important experiences from a writer’s life. 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 recreate 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 your experience in light of their own lives

Writing Your Reflective Essay 1 Prewriting I write to find out what I’m thinking about. Edward Albee, dramatist I write to find out what I’m thinking about. Edward Albee, dramatist Begin by identifying an experience that you want to write about. Try recalling past events by looking through a photo album, or listing frightening or funny memories.

Planning Your Reflective Essay 1.Replay the experience in your mind. What happened to you? In what order did the events occur? What will other people find interesting about it? 2.Picture the specific details. Where did the experience take place? What did people say? What were they feeling? What did things look, smell, and sound like? What details stand out in your memory?

Planning Your Reflective Essay 3.Reflect on what the experience means to you. Why did things develop as they did? What is the most obvious meaning you took away from this experience? 4.Decide what you want others to think about. Which of your reflections do you feel are most important to share with readers? How will you help readers understand the significance of these reflections?

Writing Your Reflective Essay 2 Drafting A reflective essay may combine both “telling” and “showing” to recreate the experience and make clear its deeper meanings for the reader. You may begin writing your essay by describing the events in chronological order, starting with the first moment you recall from your experience.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 2 Drafting Or, begin the essay with an intriguing moment that occurred during the middle or end of the experience. Make sure, however, that you fill in the missing pieces and that the order of events is clear.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 2 Drafting As you draft, act as an eyewitness, writing down everything you remember. Include sensory details, such as sights and sounds, and any conversations you recall.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 2 Drafting While you’re writing, additional levels of significance may become clear to you. Continue to reflect on your experience after you draft, as well. Later, you may revise your draft to emphasize the most important meanings of your experience.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 3 Revising Target Skill ADDING DETAILS Remember that concrete details help readers picture your experience. When adding details, use strong, sensory words that show people and events, rather than just telling about them.

Writing Your Reflective Essay 4 Editing and Proofreading Target Skill STRONG VERBS, VERB TENSES Carefully select your action words, or verbs, to make your writing stronger and more lively. Also note the sequence of verb tenses. Jumping from past to future to present tense can confuse readers.