A reflective essay is written to look back at past experiences that you may have had. It is a great type of paper to write at the completion of something. Some teachers will want you to write this type of essay at the end of the school year or towards the end of the class. It makes you look back on the past experiences that you have had and works to show off what you have learned from these experiences. It is a very valuable piece of work simply because you are asked to recount your experience. If there are twenty people in the classroom, the teacher is able to get twenty accounts of the same thing. It is interesting to see how everyone perceived the same experience differently.
Say you went on a field trip and now your teacher is asking you to write a reflective essay on your experience at the zoo. You will want to structure your paper in a certain way to give your account of that field trip to the zoo. Here is what you need to know to successfully complete this assignment.
Your reader may not have went on the field trip with you. Therefore, it is essential that you first start your essay out by telling your reader that you went to the zoo and any other information that they may need to know to understand how your experience went. You can tell them a little bit about yourself but mostly about the trip. This paragraph is designed to present the information needed so that your reader is in the right mind frame to accept and understand the rest of the paper.
You can break this section up into a few different paragraphs and explain different things that happened. For example, you can write your first paragraph on the bus ride to the zoo, the next on the monkey exhibit, the next on lunch time, and last on the ride back. You can also focus on just the experiences at the zoo and write a paragraph on each of the exhibits that you really enjoyed. There really isn’t a right or wrong way to do it.
You will then wrap your paper up by hitting on the main subjects again. You will reflect back on the experiences that you wrote about and not bring up any that you didn’t.
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