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Created by James Wright, MFA, Associate Director and Multilingual Writing Specialist at the UMB Writing Center, and in conjunction with the Center for Global Engagement, this is a guide to help you engage in critical self-reflection to enhance your international experiences and grow from them in ways that skills to take into your career. In addition, this guide can help you turn “field notes” into a compelling narrative that can be used in future personal essays for employment and education and even as a publishable manuscript.
What are the benefits of critically self-reflective writing?
- Improve academic skills, higher level of thinking and problem solving
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Promote a deeper understanding and personal development by enhancing self-awareness, sense of community and your own capacities
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Examine and question belief, opinions and values
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Facilitate the examination and interpretation of experiences into cognitive learning
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Learn how to articulate your experience to future employers
Faculty and students can use these resources in a number of ways – from simply learning the value of reflective writing all the way to engaging in a full-blown reflective writing experience that includes peer review and completion of a final written essay. If you are a faculty member interested in a more robust reflective writing component for your students, please contact James Wright in the UMB Writing Center.
Credit: James Wright, MFA, Associate Director and Multilingual Writing Specialist, UMB Writing Center