Monday, July 24, 2017

Journal 5 - Niko Traylor


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?
In the reading "Taczak Reflection", Taczak defines reflection as "a mode of inquiry: a deliberate way of systematically recalling writing experiences to reframe the current writing· situation". (pg.1) This differs slightly from Yancy's definition from her text. Yancey describes reflection as "the process by which we know that we have accomplished and by which we articulate accomplishment and the products of those processes." She continues to describe it as a three step process as well, "projection, retrospection, and revision". (pg.6) Yancey built off others' scholarship to form her own definition of reflection. She analyzed Pianko's work to critique and form her own definition as Taczak analyzes multiple scholarship to gain her idea of reflection. According to both Yancey and Taczak, reflection enables a writer to collect their thoughts and how successful they were in portraying their thoughts. Reflection is connected with the key terms we have learned so far. Reflection allows a reader to make sure they portrayed the genre they wanted to write in, the audience they wanted to write for, the purpose of their writing, and the community they want to portray to. Reflection sort of acts like a security blanket and the final call for a writer.
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.


My visual is simple to understand. It represents reflection and how the process helps the writer rethink their thoughts all over again. So in my visual I have a circle flowing around a thought bubble representing the writers mind rethinking and reflecting on his/her thoughts.


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