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Reflecting on assignments in the course can help you gain deeper insights into your learning process and improve future course work.
Both in traditional and online classrooms, journal entries are used as tools for student reflection. By consciously thinking about and comparing issues, life experiences, and course readings, students are better able to understand links between theory and practice and to generate justifiable, well-supported opinions. Although somewhat less formal than essays or other course writing assignments, journal entries should still construct a coherent narrative, use complete sentences, be grammatically correct, and be scholarly in tone.
Step 1
Read the Prompt Carefully
Look for the assignment's purpose, mode of reflection, particulars, and formatting requirements:
Step 2
Critically Reflect & Organize
Before beginning to write, make sure you have read all of the required readings with a critical eye. After reading, spend some time jotting down your reactions, ideas, and responses to the reading.
Here are some questions to guide your reflective journal entry (remember to address the prompts of the assignment, and feel free to adapt these questions to fit your specific context and needs):
Step 3
Reflect
Construct a Draft
Although a journal entry does not need a formal thesis sentence, making your central idea clear early on is important.
Step 4
Review and Revise
After writing your journal entry, review your ideas by asking yourself: