Reflective Journal
What is Reflective Writing?
• Reflective writing will enable you to attain self-understanding by exploring personal attitudes, experiences, and memories • As you write, simultaneously look forward (to goals that you might obtain) and backward (to see what you have accomplished so far)
Your journal will be a place to…
• practice personal reflective writing • work out ideas and concepts from workshop sessions and discussions • record your experiences during the workshop and beyond • continue to apply what you learn in workshop sessions to your research question(s) and project ideas
What Should You Write About?
• Any new ideas that come to mind • Responses to questions which arise in workshop discussions • Responses to questions we pose • Responses to reflective questions:
What information did you find useful today? What doubts do you still have about this info? How might you incorporate this info into your research plan?
How Should You Write?
• However you feel like it • Not worrying about grammar, spelling, etc. • By taking risks • Freely!
Let’s Practice
• In your journals, respond to this question: “What is the engineering education question or issue that is most pressing to you right now?”