Writing electronic texts: emails, discussion forum posts and blogs

A reflection is an active process that involves you thinking about your learning. Consciously making time to think about what you have been reading, hearing and doing helps you to deepen your understanding of important ideas. Ultimately, reflecting also helps you to make links between what you are learning at university and your experiences outside of university. A reflective text is one where you express in writing, or sometimes through video, your thoughts and reactions to some aspect of your learning. Of course, thinking about your learning is always helpful. But the process of writing or otherwise representing your reflection helps you to sift through your ideas, thoughts and reactions to focus on a specific aspect of your learning. Through this, you begin to see more clearly what you have learned, where you might have gaps in your learning and how what you have learned might be applied in your future career.