A Journaling Process
"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it." -- William Faulkner
There don't have to be any rules for journaling. It's exciting to be open and creative - to find your own style and express yourself. But following some general tips may dramatically increase your results. Here's a simple 4-step process: Sync, Think, Ink and Link.
SYNC - Bring together (synchronize!) supportive elements to set the stage for your journaling. If possible, choose a quiet place during your prime thinking time. You may want to have soft music playing and possibly some incense, oils or candles to scent the air. A selection of coloured pens will stimulate more of the right brain. Get your journaling book ready. Write the date and the topic (your intention) for your journaling session. It's powerful to create a ritual with strong general intentions before each journaling session. Your ritual may be as simple as lighting a candle and taking 3 deep breaths to relax and centre you. As you breathe, exhale
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When you have finished writing, read over your material. Look for shifts in writing style or content, spelling errors that may be Freudian slips, symbols and sentence structure shifts. These may shed a new perspective on your experience. Intentionally step back and look at the bigger picture. You'll see other perspectives and gain new insights. You may even want to circle words or phrases or highlight them. To conclude, write down a maximum of 3 sentences on whatever comes to your mind after reading what you've written. This final entry may record new insights. It may be a summary of your journaling. Or it may be just a few points or action items. Simply write whatever is important to you or whatever comes to your mind. If you got some great insights or results, make an entry in the index of your journal book so you can easily find it in the
For the journal portion, the focus is on the writer’s technique and craft. Your entries should examine the authorial choices made in the text through a lens of reflection, critique, and reader impact. These entries should be thoughtful and well-developed, showcasing an understanding of how craft influences meaning. I’ve done an example for you below.
A self-reflective journal is a good way to keep records and reflect upon what happened during a lesson. I plan to, at the end of each day, jot down a few comments about what worked in my lessons, what didn’t work, and how I would modify the lesson to better support my students’ development. As this information will be recorded, I can always come back to it for reference when preparing future lessons. I also plan to often read the information on this journal so I can constantly remind myself of what strategies worked and what strategies didn’t work.
*This journal should be kept in a composition notebook that looks just like this one. You can use one composition notebook for all of the journal entries.
The journals I have written came from my four years of high school English. Everyday I came to class there would be a topic on the board. I took five minutes each day to write about the given topic. It was brainstorming and giving our input on whatever the topic was. I think
Everyone knows what writing is to one extent or another, but we all have different definitions of how it should be done and varying degrees of seriousness about the art. We all have a process of writing, but each is unique to ourselves and our own experiences. Annie Dillard and Stephen King are two well known authors who have published many pieces, two of which describe how they view the writing process and let their readers get a peek of what goes on through their minds when they write. These two pieces are Dillard’s The Writing Life and King’s “What Writing Is.”
What’s the first thing you do before getting started on writing a text? Is it turn on music, get yourself alone in a room, turn on the TV? Whatever it is, everyone has their own writing process. Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs state, “…it would seem that if you want to become a more versatile, capable, powerful writer, you need to be pretty aware of which activities, behaviors, habits, and approaches lead to your strongest writing-and which don’t”(170). The writing process has a major effect on the effectiveness of the paper it’s got to do with what it takes you to get the best on paper. My writing process consists of all paperwork, which is related to the writing and music that’ll help me focus.
Finding your own writing process is crucial for a writer in order to write a successful paper. Everyone is unique and everyone’s writing process is going to be unique as well. A writer’s notebook is a perfect way for people to record random thoughts, dialogue you hear, and any other ideas you might hear. Brainstorming is a key technique to get started when composing a paper. Brainstorming allows you to think of different topics that would fulfill the requirements needed on your topic assigned. Freewriting, clustering, listing and outlining, and collaborating are also some other techniques that when practiced could come very useful when writing a paper. Having the ability to use either of these five techniques would help tremendously when composing a paper.
My process journal is direct evidence of my final product and outcome because every aspect of my online and physical process journal are about what I hope to do for my final product. All the research questions, were directly related to my final product and it ultimately helped me create my final product. My process journal is there to help show how I progressed throughout the development of my personal project, to ultimately show my final project and what has come from it. One of my final entries before going to perform, were the places that I were a social hub in DFW and then the timings at, which these, places were the busiest. After making a list, I finished by choosing the ones that I would feel most comfortable in and those were the ones
The type journaling I used was the A-B-C structured diary to recognize my antecedents. I believe the A-B-C is a great way to keep record of the antecedents and find what behaviors and consequences occur. Journaling the different contingencies that effect my target behavior will help me learn and be aware of the five W’s (who, what, where, and why) that resulted in my self-discouragement (L.Watson & Tharp, 2014, p. 79). The journaling of how I structured it was put into an excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet contained three columns that were titled Antecedents; Behaviors; and Consequences respectively. Under Antecedents, I would explain the preceding events that would follow my reactions or behavior and its consequences. Examples included: walking
The double entry journal is a tool to help you slow down while reading and pay close attention. It allows you to record your own thoughts, questions and/or connections as you read. In the left-hand column, copy a part of the text that you find interesting or intrigues you. Copy it word for word and note it correctly. You can use the example as a guide. In the right-hand column, write a reaction to the quote. You may use one of the possible reactions as a guide. You will turn this in at the completion of the unit. You need to write a full paragraph (5-8 sentences), so make sure to choose quotes that you can write a thorough and thoughtful response about.
I also keep a writer’s notebook, but because I have no previous structure writing courses, I called my observing and writing as note booking. I agree with you. A notebook comes in handy when you least expect. A mountain of stories can be created from observations and note taking reserves for future use. Write to write to pull from your thoughts materials that will create astounding stories. Daily writing takes time and as full-time mom and worker finding the time are challenging at least for me. What I’ve been doing before bed, I take fifteen minutes before bed resting for the night. I make myself write tired or not. It can be tedious because of the endless days. But I’m learning to control the thoughts that try to dictate differently than
In typing out this journal one should note that from this journal onwards there will be great memory work, in some journals more than others, but memory work nonetheless, as from this point forward I am writing these journals and reflecting on group sessions based on jot notes I have taken of the sessions either at some point during that given day or of that week.
Definetly journaling is a great idea for students to do. Everyone has the ability through learn through observation and experience. It is up to the teacher to encourage journaling among its students to promote their critical thinking skills. Now I remember that I had teachers in High School and Cochise College that used this method for me is was useful because it allow me to improve my writing skills.
Art Journaling is like having your diary in living color. A drawn, painted, and written account of your thoughts and emotions. You can go from boring hand written pages that you will never revisit to personal works of art that you will love to look at again.
It is interesting to discover the many wonders in this subject in the beginning of the class. First of all, I learned how to write two kinds of journal: autobiography and biography. Next, I started to write my spiritual journal day by day after class.