Reflection

REFLECTION

Reflection*

I think that reflection is best defined as a thought, idea, or opinion formed or a remark made as a result of meditation and consideration of some subject matter, idea, or purpose. I chose this word because in this class I feel like reflection has been proved as one of the most important parts of the writing process, if not the most important. When reflecting back you can learn so much more information, and you can also pick up on things that you may have missed within your paper that is important information for your audience.

Below is a great article talking about reflection, it encourages us to "write more...talk less."

http://writeanything.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/writing-for-reflection/

In Carr’s is “Google Making Us Stupid”, I believe reflection is evident when people go back and think about everything that they learn from Google rather than from reading like they did prior to the Internet. Reflecting on their thinking process, realizing that they can just hop on the Internet, rather than having to go to the library and do the research the old fashion way. Reflection is something that makes us think that we want to go back and learn more about subjects we just Google.

In Yancey’s piece “On Reflection” she says “both the expressivist and technocratic views of process lacked a dialogical sense of revision. For theorists like Emig and Flower, that is, the process of writing ends with the creation of a particular sort of text; they fail to explore in any real detail how writers might change not only their phrasings but their minds when given a chance to talk about their work with other people. To really change the teaching of writing, then, it seems to me that a view of process must go beyond the text to include a sense of the ongoing conversations that texts enter into- a sense, that is, of how writers draw on, respond to, and rework both their own previous writing and those of others.” She used this example to show that not everyone uses the process of reflection, but that it is extremely important and allows people to reflect back on their views and see if they still feel the same way or if they maybe feel differently.

In “How People Learn” it describes the process of transfer which is in a way a form of reflection, it allows us to go back and look at what we have learned and apply to a new class, job, or thought process in general.