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The Journal as Teacher
By: Linda Hunter
Publication:
The Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2
Date: January 1985
Summary: In their journals, Hunter's students write about their writing processes and comment on their reading. The process contributes to student growth and teaches Hunter about how students see themselves as readers and writers.
Excerpt
I have used journals more or less regularly since I began teaching.... However, the types of entries I've required have changed. In my early years of using journals I was inspired by Ken Macrorie's Writing to Be Read. I encouraged students to use their entries as prewriting for assignments or perhaps as a means of sorting out confusion on a personal or academic level. Later, inspired by my experience with the Twin Cities Area Writing Project, I asked students to record their writing process with its meanderings and frustrations to encourage insight and perspective on that process.
Toby Flulwiler's essay, "The Personal Connection: Journal Writing Across the Curriculum," ...helped me to take journals further. He makes the case for using them as a learning tool by tying the personal to the academic.
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