For this journal, please read the pdfs labeled “Yancey_On Reflection” and “Taczak_Reflection” in our Google folder. Yancey provides a brief overview of the scholarship and research that has facilitated our current understanding of reflection. She also explicitly defines the term, and writes about three different kinds of reflection. Taczak provides a slightly different definition of reflection and writes about its usefulness for writers. For this journal, please respond to the following:
How do Yancey and Taczak each define reflection? How does Yancey build on others’ scholarship to define reflection? According to both Yancey and Taczak, what does reflection enable writers to do? How might we understand reflection in connection with each of the key terms we have discussed so far—genre, audience, purpose, and discourse community?
Yancey and Taczak define reflection as a mode of inquiry: a deliberate way of systematically recalling writing experiences to reframe the current writing situation. Yancey builds on others scholarship by providing text to create an umbrella of what reflection consists of. Reflection enables writers to recognize what they have done and why they did it. For me, this is true because when I reflect on any of my own writings I recognize specific reasons why I wrote a certain sentence or paragraph. We understand reflection in connection with genre by seeking reasons why we wrote in that specific style, audience by determining which group of people we are focusing writing to, purpose by thinking about the main point of our writing, and discourse community being the same as audience: determining which group of people we are focusing writing to.
Finally, please compose (as opposed to merely finding) a visual that you believe will help us to better understand reflection. This can be an image, a chart, a gif, video, etc. that you have created. Write a few sentences about what you hope readers will understand about reflection by looking at your visual.
In my visual this reflection displays a guy who sees himself as someone with no muscles but his reflection is actually someone who does.
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