Pls help asap!! reflective essays may seem relatively easy to write; they are informal in style and tone, and they allow you to describe your own personal experience. Reflective writing is also a great way to figure out what you think or believe about an issue—and why you have that opinion. A great next step, though, is to support that opinion with convincing reasons and rhetoric. Student working and writing down something in the notebook. A female is typing messages on a laptop while sitting against a window. Like Henry and Ruby, you should use your reflective writing from earlier in the course to identify a belief you developed, based on your experience. Make your opinion the foundation for a claim and a persuasive essay that supports your claim. Your persuasive essay should include an engaging introduction with a concise thesis statement, plenty of reasons to support your claim, rhetoric that stirs readers emotions, and a clarifying conclusion.