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Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students
This workshop demystifies reflective writing, starting with the process of reflection and progressing to the writing itself. Several reflective models will be explored, ensuring that critical thinking is central to your process of reflection. Techniques such as self-interviewing will help you develop rich material for reflection.
The second half of the workshop focuses on preparing a reflective essay. You’ll learn how to plan and structure a reflective essay. The stylistic tropes of reflective writing will be outlined, so that you can feel confident that your writing is reflective and also appropriately formal. Finally, we’ll focus on editing and improving samples of reflective writing. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have generated enough raw material to begin drafting a reflective essay based on a research-related situation, writing with confidence, clarity, and a strong sense of your reflective voice.
By the end of the workshop you will have:
- addressed the value of reflective practice, and the relationship between reflective writing and academic writing;
- engaged in focused activities to reflect on your own practice
- examined several frameworks for reflection, ensuring critical thinking is at the heart of the process;
- learned how to structure a reflective essay, and write confidently and clearly in a reflective style.
Delivered By: Cherise Saywell
Prerequisites
Cancellation Policy If you are unable to attend a course please cancel your place as soon as possible, with at least 3 working days notice via the online booking system http://bookings.strath.ac.uk/mybookings.asp. Full details of booking conditions can be found at the link below.PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development
All postgraduate research students are eligible to access the Researcher Development Programme workshops. This workshop can contribute towards the PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development (PG Cert RPD).
You can find credit and class information in the Researcher Development Programme Handbook and in NEPTUNE (Engineering, HaSS) or SPIDER (Science).
Please check with your department or Supervisor to confirm if you are enrolled on the PG Cert RPD and how many credits you are expected to achieve if you are unsure.