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Overview Overview • reflective writing + context of UK HE • quantitative analysis of formulaic language of reflective writing in the BAWE corpus : the discourse of small phrases. • RW in comparison to essays • RW: reflective practice and attendant discourses. Reflective writing Reflective writing • Writing to support a process of personal growth and learning • Writing characterised by self reflection and evaluation Schon (1987) The reflective practitioner Dewey (1933) Kolb (1984) – Learning cycles Elements of reflective practice Elements of reflective practice • Cognitive skills - critical thinking, analysis, communication • Professional competence – specific skills • Personal attributes – beliefs, feelings and thoughts Hargreaves (2004). • Competencies – generic skills, Soft skills, professional/ discipline based competencies • Feelings – beliefs, thoughts, feelings • Process – reflect on experience, realising achievements and lacks, resolution and plan to improve, The rise of reflective writing The rise of reflective writing • Well established in professionally based / oriented disciplines (Health, Education, Business) • Increasingly important as an assessed genre in UK universities across a range of disciplines • Professional bodies: evidencing competencies (e.g. Nursing) • QAA – PDP – Sts to ‘reflect upon their own learning, performance, achievement’ ‘career related skills and capabilities can be recorded and (…) assessed.’ QAA HE 2009 Links to subject benchmarking. • Enterprise in HE – transferable skills – link to PDP (Edwards 2005) • Pedagogic shifts: learner centred focus - Higher Education Academy Reflective writing in the BAWE project Reflective writing in the BAWE project Some examples • Personal appraisal, career prospects (Hospitality Management) • Learning task reflective commentaries: on Literature review (Health Studies, Anthropology), Database search (Chemistry) Library Exercise (Anthropology) • Self-reflection tasks following Problem questions (Computer Science) • Final sections of a multi-part tasks (Manufacturing, Medicine) • Reflective diaries reflecting on patient care (Occupational Therapy), overseas visits (Engineering) • annexes critiquing the authors’ own approaches (Business) • self-evaluations (Business) • feedback sections (Computer Science)
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