Reflective writing
Reflective writing is all about considering how your own experiences, understanding and beliefs influence your professional practice, and vice versa.
Reflective writing is one of the few assessment tasks in which your personal experience is central to your discussion. They are designed to focus on a situation you participated in, such as a placement, and explore why it happened the way it did. Looking back and analysing your experience helps you to gain a deeper understanding of your actions, decisions and reactions.
When you connect your experience with key theories and course content, you can start to see how it all fits into your professional practice. Like any skill, reflective writing takes practice. It will become easier, and more natural, with time.