Assignment Activity Unit 5
Department of Computer Science, University of the People
ENGL 1102-01 - AY2025-T1
Tonya Robinson
October 10, 2024
Reflecting writing involves reflecting back on a past event that has happened, analysing it to
gain an in depth of it to be able to explain. Also, what the past event means to you (James
Cook University. (n.d.).
a) Self-awareness: This is how you understand your own thoughts and emotions. It
involves you acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses, and the room for
improvement.
b) Critical thinking: This is analysing your past experiences. It involves how well you
understand about the implications of your actions and what it will make to your past
experience.
c) Organization: Your thoughts have to be structured in a logical manner and needs to be
coherent. By structuring it, it will make it easy for everyone to understand.
d) Supporting evidence: By showing some of your experiences it shows you have you
have some evidence to support yourself.
e) Reflection: It is reflecting on your past experiences and the lesson you have learned;
you need to understand your experience.
Reflective Essay
Topic: Online Education (OE)
a) Self Awareness: Before I used to think that face to face learning is much better
than online education. During Covid I realized that I was mistaken since schools
were close and lessons need to continue at home.
b) Critical thinking: At the starting I was struggling because all my life I have been
doing face -to-face education the teacher will be present in the class and it was
hard to get motivated since it is my first time doing it. In order to overcome it I
realized I had to adapt to digital learning and become more self discipline.
c) Organization: I had to create my own timetable to balance and manage my time
effectively, and this really helped me and it make me to be productive since I
know how many hours to allocate for my daily routines.
d) Supporting evidence: When I see that my grades are improving then I know the
routine helped me in achieving those grades. It also makes me to balance between
my academics and responsibilities that is going to work.
e) Reflection: A throw back it was challenging at the beginning since I was not used
to it. It has taught me that online education is important because it creates a
comfortable learning environment, better time management and it increased
collaboration. I learnt that it is important to adapt to any situation.
I will be using all of the above in my academic journey and I believe it will have a
great impact in my academic journey.
References:
James Cook University. (n.d.). Reflective writing: A basic introduction.
This handout provides a few basic ideas about reflective writing.
University of York. (2023, July 5). Reflective writing.
This reading summarizes reflective writing with examples and steps to
complete your reflective writing.
