Journal 5

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 describes reflection as "mode of behavior indicative of growth of conscious." She mentions that agents of a person's own learning makes a product from of "becoming known", which is the reflection. Meanwhile, Taczak defines reflection as a way of recalling writing experience to "reframe" the current writing situations. The authors uses other's scholarship to further elaborate on the idea of reflection. Yaney does this by including an excerpt from Pianko's work. Taczak uses the support of multiple scholarship to include a general idea of what reflection means. Reflection enables the writer to think about their work and what it means to their audience and to themselves. It gives a moment for the writer to think about what they learned after completing their assignment. To understand reflection in connection of the key terms we've discussed (genre, audience, purpose, and discourse community), it can be related to how after writing a genre, you may reflect on its purpose it serves to the audience and its discourse community. 

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.

A composition of reflection: 

I chose to do a collage because a reflection is a process. What this collage means to me in terms of reflection is that once you are completed with your assignment, you take a moment to think about your work, and any connections made by the reflections helps your mind to grow.