Look at all the sites provided in the additional resources page. Choose the one that you found most informative, or helpful to your understanding, and write two paragraphs. the first one should be an abstract of the info presented and the second your reaction to it.
reactions to the reading or experience. The purpose of a
summary/overview is to give the reader a clear, objective picture of the original text. Most importantly, the
summary restates only the main points of a text or a lecture without giving examples or details, such as dates,
numbers, or statistics.
State the main ideas of the article.
Identify the most important details that support the main ideas.
Express the underlying meaning of the article, not just the superficial details.
Write your summary in your own words; avoid copying phrases and sentences from the article unless they’re
direct quotations.
Your summary should be about one third of the length of the original article.
Second Paragraph
Offer your thoughts and reactions to the reading or experience.
Present what you observed (objective discussion) and how what you experienced.
Give your feelings on what you read and explain them.
Analyze what you have read.
Include personal experience in a reflection paper but base your reactions and reflections on the material in the
article.
Do not Summarize and Do not Ramble
Do not use an article reflection to simply summarize what you have read or done.
An article reflection should not be a free flow of ideas and thoughts.
The idea of an article reflection is to write a piece describing your reactions and analysis to a reading or other
experience.
Organize Your Thoughts
Like any other paper or essay, it should be well-written, cohesive and refer directly to the specific objective
experience you had or something you observed and then explain how this experience inspired the feelings you
are feeling or helped you make a critical (not necessarily negative, but just concrete and thoughtful) analysis of
what you read or saw. Like any other piece of writing, it should also refer directly to the specific passage or
quote in the material that inspired this feeling.
An article reflection should be as organized as any other type of formal piece of writing. You can include
personal experience in a reflection paper, but do not depend on it; base your reactions and reflections on the
material that is your subject.