Reflective Writing Requirements
Reflective writing can include/focus on:
• Issues/concepts of observing and illustrating as you perceive them; personal opinion and experience; or statements of belief – “I believe that this week's effort was especially well done because….”
• How your thinking, opinions, and beliefs about advanced techniques are changing/may change through experience, as well as what factors are influencing those changes.
• What have you come to understand about art, and how did you come to know it?
• Problems, areas of ambiguity, and how you resolve problem(s.
• Observations about artists, art works, art techniques, the plant world….what you admire, what you dislike.
• Something you are learning, discovering, uncovering, and how you are learning it as an on-going process; what factors contributed to your successful learning? Unsuccessful learning?
Criteria for review:
• Reflective – not just descriptive!
• Submitted once each week in a timely manner, a page in length, at the least, with a developed idea.
• Evidence of analytical, thoughtful weighing of course concepts & their meanings.
• What have you learned from this experience?