am i right to write a reflective commentary in the first person?

Question

i've never written one before and have absolutely no idea what is expected of me. What is it anyway? I really would appreciate any tips on how to tackle this.

Answer 1

A reflective commentary is sort of a short essay that basically tells the reader about the author (writer) of the article. It is written in the first person because it's you. If you've ever read a book of fiction, sometimes the author tells you why they wrote the book. Dean Koontz sometimes does that and I love it.

If this is for a class, the teacher probably wants to get a better understanding of how or why you wrote this essay, article, ect.

A good commentary (giggle) on reflective commentaries is on this website: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~e101comp/literacies/ReflectiveCommentary.html

Good Luck with your project.

Answer 2

That all depends upon what view you want to give the readers. Different writers have different styles. In high school, it seems like teachers try to teach you "do it EXACTLY this way", when there is no exact correct way to do it. Normally, a reflective commentary is done either from a 1st person or a 3rd person perspective. It'd be pretty hard to do one from a 2nd person perspective. You can either look at the story as a person who is a character in the story themself, showing the story from their perspective. Or you can tell the story for a perspective of a person on the outside looking in and just observing. Or yet again, you could tell the story like a narrator just reading a book. You could even put a twist on the story and tell it from a person's perspective on the outside looking in who later becomes involved in the story and tells the other half from a perspective looking from the inside. Look at the movie Hoodwinked for instance, they tell the same story but from each main character's perspective. It shows how the same story can be looked at differently from each character's point of view. Anyways, have fun with it!

Answer 3

For some reason, writing in the first person and second person is frowned upon in academia. Your other questions really depend on what it is you're writing about, but I can tell you that academics are also impressed by a critical approach and many references.