Yancy describes reflection as a means of going beyond the text to include a sense of the ongoing conversation that a text enters into. Setting goals, text revising after introspection, and then being able to articulate what you learned. To get to that definition, Yancy said she had to build on other's scholarship of reflection. She began with someone else's definition and continued to look at it and research it in a different way. She used her own class in the research just like others had done, but at a new angle. Instead of doing what early researchers did which was asking students to just participate in a study, Yancy instead called them agents of their own learning and credited students for knowing what was going on in their own head. Reflection allows writers to see what method of learning and teaching are best, and it allows them to constantly improve their work and writing because they revisit their work and are able to fix it or learn something and improve the next time. Tazak defines reflection as a way of recalling writing situations to reframe the current writing situation. Both Yancy and Tazak agree reflection can help improve writing by recognizing why they actually use certain methods and learning from past mistakes to improve current writing. Reflection can be connected to any of the key terms because all of the terms can be looked at, learned from, and later improved upon in later writing. All of the key terms hold an important place in writing and reflection is the term that ties all of them together.
This image represents a person thinking back on their work and contemplating what they learned and how to improve more the next time.
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