Reflective Writing Task
So, I've been journaling, tracking thoughts, feelings, evaluating etc... all as part of Task2!
I've quite liked some of the techniques that were suggested to us. I have chosen to post a picture of my journal on a day at work. I used listing and a few spider diagrams to reflect on my day. This helped me to plan for my next day of work. I took note of positive things that occured during my classes and things that I needed to organised for the following week. I also wrote down feelings and adjectives to describe my day.
Here I have explained my thoughts on the 'ways of writing' for keeping a Journal.
Description & initial reflection: fairly simple I quite liked this method of reflective writing. On a day when I was at home for example, I wrote down some notes about what I did throughout the day and how I was feeling was a big part of my 'descriptive journal' because I wasn't doing much, I seemed to reflect more on how I was feeling and the mood that I was in eg. relaxed, chilled, lazy
List: I really liked this method, it didn't take as long as the other 'ways of writing'. I usually make lists of things that I need to do so this was a good way for me to keep a quick journal that I could reflect on at the end of the day. I often wrote down words that described my day and things I saw that stuck in my mind.
Evaluation: I didn't really like this method, so I chose not to use it. It was all a bit too detailed for me, especially on days where I didn't particularly learn anything or do anything worth 'evaluating'. Only on days when I was working, I could use evaluation to reflect on new experiences and discoveries.
Graphs, charts and diagrams: brain-storming and spider diagrams helped me to expand more on thoughts of things that had happened during my day. I found this a more enjoyable way of keeping a journal.
What if?: this was fun, sometimes I ended up having ridiculous outcomes to my day. From buying a top in a shop in London to modelling it in Paris for example!
Another view: This was weird, one day I chose to try writing about my day as my handbag. I wrote about how it felt being carried and chucked around, sitting on the floor for hours feeling bored when I wasn’t using it. Writing as another person was awkward, I couldn’t quite think of how they would describe me and my day, maybe boring? or what they were thinking during some of our conversations. This was a challenging way of writing, I don’t think I’ll use this method again. It was very different I suppose, instead of just writing lists of my events.
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