How to write a Reflective EssayFormat & Purpose: Not autobiography, but your reflection on a particular life experience, person or thing. To also explore how you have changed, or learned from it. DESCRIBE INTERPRET EVALUATE PLAT hat Happened What does the How wilyouepply our future wt progam, ‘areee este?Describe: What was the event/ who is the person or thing? How did you feel before? Interpret: Was it a positive ZO or negative experience? How were you affected? What was your reaction? Introduction: Hook, background & thesis (intro the topic) A happy accident! oO Evaluate: Why was it Conclusion: valuable/meaningful to Repeat you? thesis and Plan: How did this event/interaction/ closing experience change your outlook on life/ thoughts future?In my. short fe, there are many experiences that could guality as Hook life-changing. Every new experience was, at one time or another, the first experience. For good or bad, each instance changed the °*°roround course that my life has taken. Bui. the mostransformatve Thesis Introduce experience was the birth of my youngest brother. mee experience When it comes to books, | didn’t understand the appeal, Vdread Hook ae one after another for each assignment not understanding what all S2ckoround the fuss was about. However, the moment | read Pride and Thesis: —_—— Prejudice, it was like my literary eyes opened for the first time. It [wees stirred love within me for classics | Fa SES oe realize could exist. "nor experienceDescribe: the person, thing or event in more detail and how you felt before \oelis someone my parents often call a happy accident. At the time ‘hat my mother became pregnant, Iwas 13, and my ether brother, lake, was 10. We were whst you would calla wel-rourded, pertect ‘amily of four, We neatly ft into the perfect classification im neary every way, We didot resize whalae were missing until the moment that my youngest brother fist opened his striking blue oes, In tuth, | vesented the fact that | would be having another siting, Nothing needed to be added to our family, and my mother, already “Bal the tine, was considered high risk because of her age. The pregnancy itself was full of complications that sent the straight course of my life into rollercoastar-ike loops that my 13-year-old mind had a hard time Comproherg Gt you: can see how forging through those loops helped me to rol with the punches that ifeinevtably brings Interpret: how were you affected/ what was your reaction? Evaluate: how was this meaningfullife changing? ‘The day Joe! was bom, my mother took me with her to the hospital rather than my father, it wasnt a planned move, but Jake and my father were both feverish; I was tne next best alternative. Siting. vith her through every contraction, Igained a new respect for just how powerful and song & woman could be in what might be consideTed their weakest moment, Holding her hand and feeding “oneldered Tek weakest moment. Holding her hand and feeding, eriee chips, [gained a connection with my mether that | cként realize we were lacking. Te moment ny ne baby eter came is wa vothngs eat smtersuy Fre yada ese Row ch au need something until i's sting in your lap. Second, my Ife Fis chubby litle finger around mine, | understoad the words "happy accident” completely Plan: how has this affected the way you think going forward. How you now approach life? LessonThere are many different experiences in life that have changed a_ Repeat thesis: The part of me as a person. But, nothing so profoundly changed my thing, person, views and outlook on life like the birth of my youngest brother. event that Joet’s arrival was a life-altering event that caused me to see the Changed your life world through new eyes. Repeat thesis: The I never thought I'd say a book changed me, but in this case, its thing, person, true, The love | found in Pride and Prejudice introduced me toa venta beau , , we changed your life beautiful world of classic literature | can't imagine living without. Despite not reading Pride and Prejudice for a while, it will always. be my favorite book.Happy writing ...