Development of your business idea

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Enterprise Development Module

Reflective Essay

This second piece of coursework for this module requires you to write an individual self-assessment of how you functioned during the planning process towards the development of your business idea, how the process might be more effectively managed in the future and what you have identified as requiring development.

This piece of work should include an element of personal critical evaluation, in terms of what you felt you have learnt about yourself as a result of the business planning process and your development throughout the module.

Additionally, you will reflect on how you have applied the information covered throughout the lectures into developing the business plan.

Here is a guide to help you develop a suitable reflective essay;

COVER PAGE
Your reflective report needs a cover page. You can use the standard cover page template which provides information on your student ID, the course ID, the word count etc.

INTRODUCTION
As an introduction, you should address the follow;

What is reflection?
What are you reflecting about? What are the benefits of reflection? Which reflective models exist?
Which reflective model are you using and why are you using it?

USE A REFLECTIVE WRITING MODEL
We recommend that you use Gibbs reflective cycle for this report. This model has 6 steps that you can use to think through your experience in a sequence that addresses the requirements stated in the previous slide. These steps are;

Description - Describe what happened?
Thinking and Feeling - What were you thinking and feeling?
Evaluation - What was good and bad about it? Analysis - What else can you make of the situation? Conclusion - What else could you have done?
Action Plan - If it occurs again, what would you do?

WHAT TO AVOID IN YOUR REFLECTIVE WRITING
Here are a few common mistakes students make when writing reflectively;

Focusing too much on describing your experience. Not using an appropriate reflective model
No writing in the first person Not evaluating their experience
Reflective writing is essentially subjective. Its your view about what you experienced.

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