Reflection Paper

Source 1: http://www.cascadia.ctc.edu/facultyweb/instructors/jvanleer/intro%20geol/Reflection%20Paper%20Guidelines.htm

Reflection papers are designed to formally consider what they have been learning and to organize it through writing.

When writing, consider the following:

• What have we studied that is interesting?
• What new things have you learned?
• How has your learning affected preconceptions or misconceptions you brought with you into class
• How does your learning affect you view of the world and the universe?
• Will what you have learned change your behavior in the future?

Source 2: http://daphne.palomar.edu/di/reflectionpaper.htm

A reflection paper should report some of your thoughts about the reading in question. It may include questions about the reading, arguments on the issue raised by the author, and relevant point not raised by the author.

Feel free to write down questions you have about the reading or issues it raises. Feel free to disagree with the reading and criticize the writer's point of view. Stick to specifics. Criticism is fine; vague whining is not. Write about what the writer says, not just how you feel about having to read it. But feel completely free to criticize or disagree with what he or she says. Feel free to raise other issues suggested by the reading.

If I don't give you a specific question to write on, reflect on these questions: What are the issues this reading raises? That is, what questions does the writer set out to answer? What are her answers? How would you evaluate the evidence she presents to support her position? Where do you think the author is right? Where wrong? Why? What points need further exploration?