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Chapter 27 asserts the value of reflection and explains how to assemble a portfolio. It defines reflective writing and provides guidelines for both single and comprehensive reflections, and offers suggestions for managing the portfolio process whether you are in a conventional or computer-based composition course. By the end of the chapter, you should understand the following: 1. Reflection is a valuable activity that is used in various settings, including classrooms and the workplace. 2. Reflective writing resembles the dialectical process related to exploratory writing and invites you to re-examine your writing from a different perspective. 3. Reflective writing in the classroom usually takes the form of either single reflections or comprehensive reflections, each with its own purposes. 4. Instructors use a variety of assignments to prompt single reflections, and there are various questions associated with the production of single reflections. 5. Comprehensive-reflection assignments usually ask you to address four different kinds of knowledge: self, content, rhetorical, and critical knowledge. 6. There are proven strategies for managing the portfolio process, for selecting its ingredients, and for writing the comprehensive reflective letter to introduce your portfolio.
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