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Framing in writing refers to the perspective used when you write or convey information, a perspective that may lead, or even almost force, readers to interpret that information in a certain way. Framing, in other words, when reflecting upon an activity and knowledge learned, enables readers to understand what you have learned and the way that an activity helped you create new knowledge and awareness of the activity. The paper is written from the point of view of the activity and learning occurring. In writing a reflection about searching for existing, secondary literature or about critically assessing/ evaluating, a writer interprets information conveyed. Therefore, readers understand why the writer is including the information included. Readers do not say, "Why is the writer providing this example or discussing that event?" They are able to understand how the example or discussion related to the learning gained in completing the activity. Use with care: The information below taken directly from Wikipedia ... A frame in social theory consists of a schema of interpretation that individuals rely on to understand and respond to events.[1] When one asks a question such as "What happened?" or "What is going on?", the answer often proceeds through reference to one or another frame. If a friend rapidly closes and opens an eye, we will respond very differently depending on whether we attribute this to a purely "physical" frame (he blinked) or to a social frame (he winked).[2] The former might result from a speck of dust, resulting in an involuntary and not particularly meaningful reaction; the latter would imply a voluntary and meaningful action (to convey humor to an accomplice, for example). Observers will read events seen as purely physical or within a frame of "nature" differently than those seen as occurring with social frames, though the two often overlap and one can confuse or reinterpret them (as when someone winks, then pretends he blinked when the wink proves to have a deleterious effect). But we do not look at an event and then "apply" a frame to it. Rather, individuals constantly project into the world around them the interpretive frames that allow them to make sense of it; we only shift frames (or realize that we have habitually applied a frame) when incongruity calls for a frame-shift. In other words, we only become aware of the frames that we always already use when something forces us to replace one frame with another.[3] In media studies, sociology and psychology, the term framing refers to an inevitable process of selective influence over the individual's perception of the meanings attributed to words or phrases. Framing defines the packaging of an element of rhetoric in such a way as to encourage certain interpretations and to discourage others. The mass-media or specific political or social movements or organizations may establish media frames. "Framing is the process by which a communication source, such as a news organization, defines and constructs a political issue or public controversy".[4] Use with care: from Wikipedia ... References
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