Chapter+5-+Journaling

=Journaling =


 * Journaling is a "free zone". This writing strategy allows students to freely express how they feel, what their thoughts are, and ideas and put them all on paper. This is an individual assignment that effectively incorporates meaningful writing into a daily practice. Journaling is also a to practice writing skills.

**The most common forms of journaling in the classroom are:**
1. **Photo Scrapbook Journals**- By using both pictures are text, students are practicing writing with both verbal and visual dimension. This allows students to creatively use illustrations (photographs, magazine clippings, or hand drawn pictures) to convey thoughts, ideas, reflections, and facts learned.

**2.** **Comic Journals**- Again, students would use illustrations, however this time in a more creative (possibly even humorous fashion), to incorporate both verbal and visual writing strategies. By creating a comic journal, students use cartoons to demonstrate happenings, characters, and facts in the unit of study. This could also be a way for students to voice their opinions and interpretations on the unit while enjoying what they are composing.

**3. Content Journals or "What Are You Thinking?" Journals-** These are your standard classroom journals. Students record information learned through readings, videos, demonstrations, projects, research, etc. This is also a way for students to voice opinions and interpretations. Content journals could so help teachers in assessing their students knowledge of the course.

**4. Log Journals-** These journals are most useful in a science class. They are to record events of a project, study or adventure. The format of these journals are: Date, Time, Place, Personal Insights, Reflections, Hypotheses, and Thoughts on the experience.

**5. Partner Journals-** This type of journal involves two students to give commentary on the others entry. A page is split into two parts and the one partner writes on one side of the page while the other comments back on the topics addressed.

=__What is the teacher's role in Journaling?__ =
 * **Choose the journaling genre, type, shape, and size to fit the assignment and the expectations:** Be sure to vary the writing forms. Complete the assignments in the same way in every class.
 * **Set expectations and guidelines:** If students are expected to meet specific criteria in their journal entries, make expectations concise and clear.
 * **Foster creativity and expression:** Allow students to express their feelings, emotions and thoughts in their own way or "think outside the box".


 *  I found this section of the chapter well thought out. Journaling is an excellent way for students to practice their writing skills. Chapman and Kings also offer different types of journaling, allowing the appropriate discourses that Kinneavy would recommend. Also, for the teachers role, the second bullet is a main point that Richard Fulkerson discusses in his //"Four Philosophies of Composition//". His purpose in this text was that teachers have a "consistent mindlessness about relating means to desired ends". Fulkerson believes that many teachers instructions are too vague. They are using rhetorical approach to their instructions and when it comes down to assessing the paper, in turns out the student did not “develop their paper” well enough to the teachers expectation . I believe Chapman and King would agree that this is a vital part in instructing students.