In Summary: Writing a Reflective Essay
Find a conversation and listen in.
- Explore your experiences.
- Ask questions about promising subjects.
- Conduct an observation.
Reflect on your subject.
- Examine your subject.
- Collect details.
- Find significance.
Prepare your draft.
- Convey your main idea.
- Tell a story.
- Go into detail.
- Choose your point of view.
- Consider genre and design.
- Frame your reflections.
Review and improve your draft.
- Ensure that your main idea is clear.
- Examine the presentation of your observations.
- Review dialogue.
- Show, don’t tell.