Megan A.
Professor Jones
English 1100
25 October 2013
Class
Participation
3. Why does reflective writing help
a student learn and develop as a better writer? How does it work?
Reflective
writing can be a painful yet revealing process for a writer. Reflective writing
makes a writer come face to face with their faults and weaknesses, which is not
an easy task for humans who exhibit an inherently vein nature. As a writer
finishes their current work, they are overcome with a sense of pride; often
they have feelings that resemble those of a mother when observing their child.
With this sense of pride the writer’s viewpoint is often skewed and they are
unable to see the faults in their essay, they begin to live out the saying “the
face only a mother could love” (metaphorically speaking of course) in relation
to their essay. When writers are forced to reread their papers with the mindset
that they are searching for their inherent faults, one can begin to develop as
a writer. The analysis of ones faults allows them to focus on those specific
issues and expand upon them. This process inherently diminishes the number of
weak points in ones paper due to the exploitation of weaknesses and the
undivided desire to diminish these weaknesses.
