Reflective Writing

Kate Williams, Mary Woolliams, Jane Spiro

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781352010084
• eBook ISBN: 9781350315532
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Study Aids
• Subtopic: Study Guides

Packed with practical advice, this concise guide explains what reflective writing is and how to approach it. It equips students with all the key information and strategies they need to develop an appropriate reflective writing style, whatever their subject area. Annotated examples from a range of disciplines and contexts show students how to put these tips into practice. It concludes with a section on applying reflective practices to personal development and career planning. This handy guide is an indispensable resource for students of all disciplines and levels, who are required to develop and demonstrate reflective qualities in their work. It will be particularly useful to students writing reflective logs on placements. 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

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Series Editor
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1 Understanding reflective writing
• Part 2 Language in reflective writing
• Part 3 Forms and contexts for reflective writing
• Part 4 Reflection in reading and writing
• Part 5 Using frameworks in reflective writing
• Part 6 Reflection for life
• Conclusion: the habit of reflection
• References
• Useful sources
• Index
• eCopyright