For future reflective logs, I am going to try and adopt the reflective writing style of Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1988) to structure my reflective logs.

This follows 6 Key stages:

1. Description
   What happened?
2. Feelings
   What are you thinking and feeling?
3. Evaluation
   What was good and bad about the situation?
4. Analysis
   What sense can you make of the situation?
5. Conclusion
   What else could you have done?
6. Action plan
   If it arose again, what would you do?

During the reflective writing lecture, John’s model for structured reflection (2000) and Bortons/Driscoll’s development framework were discussed, and reflecting during the lecture on the information I had been given, I was most likely to use and adapt my writing style to either of these two models. However, once finishing the lecture and proceeding to further reading, I noticed that the writing style I already use to write reflective logs typically relates more closely to Gibbs’s reflective cycle than the other two models.

I have come to this conclussion as I would like to adapt and develop my existing reflective writing knowledge rather than starting fresh in a new style. I have thought of the oppertunity to develop a new writing style and expand my knowledge of more than just one way of writing however, I feel the development of current skills and adapting the knowledge I already know is more inportant that creating new skills at this point in my studies.