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Title: Personal reflection pieces
Post by: katiesaliba on July 15, 2014, 11:10:05 pm

Recently, a lecturer told me that choosing to write a personal reflective piece is best for context writing. My school is studying 'identity and belonging', so I suppose this form of writing should work best. However, will a personal reflection be considered boring if it doesn't tackle big issues like racism and immigration? I don't want to write a 'petty' piece that will be considered 'pathetic' by examiners. What topics should be avoided? Thanks :)

Title: Re: Personal reflection pieces
Post by: meganrobyn on July 17, 2014, 10:30:25 am

Cliche should be avoided. Like the plague. The exact topic is less important.

Writing a piece exploring something seemingly 'small' can therefore be one of the very best ways to avoid cliche, and to have depth.

You need to be personal; you need to be authentic/honest; you need to have depth; and you need to NOT be cliche. Just work with those.