Repetition, from navigation, supports reinforcement and recollection (hugging)
Reflection, from articulation, supports synthesis and transfer (bridging)
From English 101 final assignment: It's appropriate that we make this somewhat abrupt shift in genre at this point in the term because we're also shifting into a different mode of writing--reflective writing. We've been doing some hugging for this, with the reflective commentaries on the peer review rounds and revised paper drafts, to practice for this big reflective writing performance. But it really is a shift into a different type of learning experience, the type that Perkins and Salomon refer to as bridging, a type of high-road transfer because it doesn't rely on future situations being so similar that you'll automatically know how to handle them; instead, bridging "requires the effort of deliberate abstraction and connection-making" (27). What they are getting at is the legendary educational reformer John Dewey's definition of education as "that reconstruction or reorganization of experience which adds to the meaning of experience, and which increases ability to direct the course of subsequent experience" (89). We reflect on what we've learned in order to make meaning out of it and to use it in the future. Of course we can do that in our heads, to ourselves. But the memories become much more elaborate and therefore more durable and retrievable when we capture them in writing. So that's what we've been doing in the reflective commentaries and what we'll be doing in this final module of the term. As you read back over what you've written this term to decide what to include in your portfolio, as well as to see if anything jumps out at you from your English 101 Takeaways document, your discussion posts, or your peer review round reflections, any connections you make (hopefully in writing, since annotating is a skill we've been practicing this term) will be bridges that you build between what you've learned and all the situations in your future in which you'll use that learning.
Dewey, John. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. New York: Macmillan, 1922.
Perkins, David, and Gavriel Salomon. "Teaching for Transfer." Educational Leadership.Sept. 1988: 22-32.