Essay on Reflective Practice

The article “Reflective Practices and Professional Development” from the ERIC Digest is an expository piece which seeks to provide factual information to an intellectual audience.   The author's main objectives were to inform, explain and clarify the different types of practices discussed, its processes and how to turn them into meaningful action and development for the professional. The author explains the concept of reflective practices and its benefits to professional development.   This is outlined in the introductory paragraph, throught the contents and in the conclusion of this article.   The writer is trying to convince readers that when reflective practice is implemented and practiced in the classroom it can and will enhance the teaching   history of learning process.   This expository discourse of this piece of writing is dominant since the author used examples, many references and illustrations to justify his choice of this discourse.   This paper provides a commentary on how the text was organized, major devices and techniques and the overall assessment of how successful the writer has been in achieving primary purpose in writing.  
The recognition and use of text organization are essentials processes underlying the article .   The article has well organized patterns which flow in a logical order.   It is organized into five sections.   Following a short introduction Section 1 presents the concept of reflective practice which was introduced by Donald Schon (1987) to recognized harmony between beginners in discipline and successful practitioners,   Section 2 presents the two levels of reflective practice, which are geared towards pre-service and in-service teachers, Section 3 considers various techniques that are used for investing teaching practice with reflection, Section 4 presents the benefits of reflection in practice and Section 6 summarizes and concludes the article.   Furthermore, these sub headings are bold and capitalized and are used to organize the...