Reflective Journal

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Reflective Journal
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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)

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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

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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?

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How Should You Write?

• However you feel like it
• Not worrying about grammar, spelling, etc.
• By taking risks
• Freely!

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Lets Practice

• In your journals, respond to this question
• What is the engineering education question or
  issue that is most pressing to you right now?