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Academic Skills Workshops: Reflective writing

How to write reflectively

This Reflective writing: How to reflect workshop helps explain what reflective writing is, considers key characteristics of this academic skill along with the differences between descriptive and reflective writing. It introduces Gibbs' reflective cycle (1988) and shows how to link reflective writing with evidence from academic sources.

 

[15 minutes 21 seconds]

You can find a copy of the PowerPoint for this workshop below.

Note: In this video any referencing of sources in extracts is according to BU Harvard style instructions.

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Descriptive vs. evaluative writing

This Descriptive vs. evaluative writing workshop will help you understand the importance of evaluation and distinguish it from descriptive writing.  It will also guide you in integrating evaluative writing into your paragraphs and familiarise you with effective phrases which facilitate the process of evaluation.

 

[13 minutes 5 seconds]

For more on this topic, visit Reflective writing.

You can find a copy of the PowerPoint for this workshop below.