I’m working on my second to last lesson for my English
Composition course: Reflective
Writing. As with the other lessons,
there are plenty of reading assignments and writing exercises before I finally
get down to writing my essay.
Unlike the other lessons, there are only about 11 total
pages of reading required. The study
guide goes into quite a bit of detail about what is and what is not Reflective
Writing, and what the real world applications of Reflective Writing are. Basically, it involves putting your inner
thoughts and feelings down on paper.
Again, I think I should be allowed to submit my blog as my essay…but
that probably won’t work.
As part of the initial writing exercise, I’m supposed to
write about what I learned when I was 3, 6, 10, 13 and 16 years old. This could present a bit of a problem, since
I can’t even remember what I had for dinner last night, but I guess I could
stick to the basics of what one does at those ages. Eventually, I’m supposed to narrow down my
experiences to one main event that happened to me when I was younger and
develop that into the initial draft of my Reflective Writing essay.
All of this is supposed to take me “several days” according
to the study guide. I could probably do
it all in one afternoon, really. But, I’ll
put a few days worth of effort into it.
After all, I do want to get a decent grade on this assignment, and I don’t
want it to have the appearance of being rushed.
There goes my plan to have English Composition completely finished
before the end of July.
The final draft of the Reflective Writing Essay is supposed
to be 700 to 1,500 words, using “concrete, vivid words, figurative language,
and sensory imagery”. Narrative and
descriptive writing strategies are also supposed to be a part of the Reflective
Writing Essay.
I do so much writing on a daily basis that this really
shouldn’t pose much of a problem for me, unless I suffer another case of writer’s
block, like I did with my Narrative Essay.
The way I overcame it was to write a blog entry about the fact that I
had writer’s block. I highly recommend
this as a way of diving into writing if you are drawing a blank.
I still have not received my grade for my last essay, but it
could take up to three weeks. So far,
that’s my only gripe about Penn Foster
College.