Journal Writing

Learning Journals - Botany 431
This web site demonstrates how one professor uses learning journals in his course and how he explains their use to his students.

Journal Writing and Adult Learning
This ERIC Digest "focuses on several types of journals, exploring their value in assisting adults through their learning journey and summarizing advice from the literature on effective ways to use journals."

Effective Use of Student Journal Writing
This site describes the importance and relevance of journals to the development of communication skills. The site also includes a discussion of coordinating journal uses, Dialogue Journals, Literary Journals, and Subject Journals. Links to articles are also included.

In Writing for Learning -- Not Just for Demonstrating Learning, the author distinguishes between two goals of writing - for learning and for demonstrating learning. He emphasizes the value of the former and additionally speaks to the occasions and kinds of writing teachers can use (including journal writing), the degrees of response to various forms of writing, grading, and preventing plagiarism.