| A reflective paper calls on the writer to express your own views of an experience.
Write a reflective report expressing your opinion and attitude concisely and coherently on one of the following topics:
1. Best Travelling Experience
2. High School Experience VS University Experience
3. Experience of Learning a new Language
4. Stress reasons Among College Students
5. Aspects of Successful planning
6. Factors leading to failure Among Students
7. Reflections on the Effectiveness of Social Engineering
8. A workplace you left (reasons, results, challenges)
9. Studying and Work Experience
Consider the following questions as prompts to help you get started:
(Describe the issue, including your role, observations, and reactions.)
Describe the issue
1. What happened?
2. What was your role?
3. How did you feel? What did you think? What did you learn? Why might this be important?
Interpretation of the event(experience) and its impact
4. How did the event relate to your personal ethics or values?
5. What expectations/assumptions did you have? Were they confirmed or challenged?
6. What were your personal or professional strengths and/or limitations in relation to the event?
7. What other factors, big or small, may have affected the event?
8. How will this experience shape your future practice?
9. What effect did you and this experience have on others/community?
Summary of the report
10. In evaluating the plan in light of its benefits and challenges, did you recognize any need for you to change personally? How so?
11. Did this experience inspire you to continue a commitment to serving others?
Remember to bring in an additional source and use it to support or challenge. You may disagree with the source but you should discuss why you disagree with it.
| How to Write a Reflection (Reflection Guide) |
How Reflections Will Be Graded (Rubric) |
| 5 criteria, maximum 6 points each |
| Stages of Reflection |
Questions To Guide Your Reflection |
1-2 |
3-4 |
5-6 |
| What? Briefly describe the event, issue, or situation. |
· What happened?
· What is your role?
· How did you feel? What did you think? What did you learn? |
Description is almost absent. is vague
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Description is vague or lacks relevance. |
Description is relevant and concise. |
| So What? (Impact) Interpret the event and its impact. |
· How did you feel? What did you think? What did you learn? Why might this be important? How does the event relate to your personal ethics or values?
· What expectations/assumptions did you have? Were they confirmed or challenged?
· What were your personal or professional strengths and/or limitations in relation to the event?
· What other factors, big or small, may have affected the event? |
Interpretation and impact are almost absent.
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Interpretation and impact are vague or lack depth or relevance.
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Interpretation and impact demonstrate personal insight.
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| So What? (Analysis) Test your analysis against one or more sources*. |
· Bring in an additional source and use it to support or challenge the So What (Impact) section above.
· The source is cited using an acceptable format.
· You may disagree with the source but you should discuss why you disagree with it. |
Sources and
analysis are
almost absent.
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Sources and
analysis are
superficial or lack relevance.
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Sources are relevant |
| Now What? Based on your analysis of the experience, outline a plan for your learning needs or changes to practice. |
· Discuss how this experience will shape your future practice
· Comment on what you might still need to learn, and how you would go about learning
· Is anything still unclear? How might you deal with anything that’s still unclear? |
Implications for future action not identified effectively |
Planning for future action is incomplete, vague, and not feasible. |
Planning for future action is clear, specific, and realistic.
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| Clarity & Organization of writing. Note: 1 point will be deducted for papers that do not follow the required format (e.g., file type, line spacing, word count). |
Writing disorganized, difficult to interpret. |
Writing shows some
organization.
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Ideas clearly
and logically conveyed. |
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