Journals
Journals
are quick responses to specific topics and serve to generate writing without
worrying about revising or editing. These are one-draft pieces. Your journal is
an excellent place for you to collect ideas for writing projects in this
course.
Individual
journal entries are not graded. Volume (2,000 words for the semester) is all
that counts. I will offer writing prompts throughout the course. Some journal
responses will be written during class, and some done for homework.
Approximately two (2) or three (3) weekly journal entries, each about
fifty (50) words, would ensure meeting the final word-count requirement. Of
course, feel free to go over the limit. Most of the journal topics relate to
course writing assignments, and some can serve as prewriting exercises for
upcoming assignments. Because individual journal entries are not graded, you
need not be concerned with sticking directly to the given instructions. Feel
free to go off on tangents. Remember what is important is quantity, generating
lots of writing.
I
am experimenting this semester by having the class do their journals on the
computer. I will show you how to set up a specific computer folder to maintain
and save all of your journal entries on the U drive of the College network as
well as remind you to keep a backup on a floppy disk. For a file name, you can
use the date of the entry. It is best not to put any spaces in file names. You
can send me your journal entries via computer or give me your backup disk.
Certainly if you want to print and collect your entries, you can. You can also
do your journal in a regular book if you prefer. Just be sure to bring the book
to class as needed and on dates that journals will be submitted.
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