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Elena Taylor – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2023
Reflection is a necessary component of learning. Through reflective assignments and tasks, students are given opportunities to evaluate their learning and analyze strategies they use while acquiring and applying course material. Reflections also help students assess and think deeply about the information presented in class and thus better retain…
Descriptors: Reflection, Writing Instruction, Writing Exercises, Student Attitudes
Richard Kent – English Journal, 2014
Athletes in all sports and at all levels of performance keep training logs, journals, or team notebooks as one more way to learn extensively about their sport. Such organizing, planning, and reflection can play a pivotal role in an athlete's life. What's more, as communication tools, athletes' writing has the potential to be especially helpful for…
Descriptors: Athletes, Journal Writing, Reflection, Expressive Language
Lengelle, Reinekke; Meijers, Frans – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2014
We propose that writing can be employed to foster the kind of career learning required in the twenty-first century. The article offers insights into how writing exercises and approaches can be applied to help students construct their career stories in a way that allows them to engage in a dialogical learning process and work in a self-directed…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Career Education, Career Guidance, Journal Writing
Enright, Robert D.; Rhody, Margaret; Litts, Breanne; Klatt, John S. – Journal of Moral Education, 2014
We used a randomized quasi-experimental design to test the effectiveness of three types of perspective-taking condition in a forgiveness education program. Allport's Contact Hypothesis was used as a framework for the study design. Eighth graders (n?=?132) in an urban Midwestern city were invited to participate. We evaluated the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Program Effectiveness
Hudd, Suzanne S.; Smart, Robert A.; Delohery, Andrew W. – Teaching Sociology, 2011
The use of informal writing is common in sociology. This article presents one model for integrating informal written work with learning goals through a theoretical framework known as concentric thinking. More commonly referred to as "the PTA model" because of the series of cognitive tasks it promotes--prioritization, translation, and analogy…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Sociology, Content Area Writing, Educational Objectives
Furman, Rich; Coyne, Ann; Negi, Nalini Junko – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2008
This descriptive article explores the uses of poetry and journaling exercises as means of helping students develop their self-reflective capacities within the context of international social work. First, self-reflection and its importance to social work practice and education is discussed. Second, the importance of self-reflection in international…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Writing Exercises, Foreign Countries, Social Work
Babcock, Matthew James – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This article explores the beneficial and sometimes unpredictable implications of a daily reflective writing exercise for introductory literature courses: the learning log. Pseudonymous samples of student writing, coupled with instructor commentary, gesture toward ways in which the learning log's continual implementation and modification foster a…
Descriptors: Writing Exercises, Reading Strategies, Introductory Courses, Literature
Hart, Melissa – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
In this article, the author talks about Natalie Goldberg's "Writing Down the Bones." Over the past 20 years, she has referred to its pages whenever she needs a chapter of cheery Buddhist philosophy to soften an onslaught of editorial rejection slips. In the midst of any heady publishing success, she turns to the book to remind her that,…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Student Attitudes, Student Reaction, Personal Narratives

Jordan, Edwina – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1988
Suggests having students write a series of business magazine article summaries as part of a journal assignment. (MS)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Journal Writing, Periodicals, Technical Writing

Tichenor, Mercedes; Jewell, Mary Jean – Reading Improvement, 1996
Provides a framework for using journal writing in the primary grades to develop writing skills. Outlines techniques to help focus teacher observations, deepen insights, inform curricular decision making, and help teachers reflect upon the student's role in journal writing. (RS)
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Primary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises

Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Includes five teaching suggestions: "From Marvell to Tennyson to Eliot: Or Are You a Prufrock or a Ulysses?" by Bill Shaw; "Attendance and Contact Records," by Kaye E. White; "Viewer Mail," by Paul Hunter; "Electronic Journal," by James W. Smith; "Responding to a Need-for-Advice Question," by John…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Poetry

Sensenbaugh, Roger – Reading Psychology, 1992
Annotates 17 conference papers, theses, and journal articles (published between 1989 and 1992) from the ERIC database that discuss the advantages and disadvantages of journal writing at all levels of education. (RS)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Journal Writing
Owings, Cindy – Drama/Theatre Teacher, 1990
Outlines a three-part integrated and reciprocal program which can effectively incorporate a writing program that has a strong reading component into a drama curriculum. Includes journal writing as the foundation for the program, as well as "I-search" and integrated dramatic readings for further depth and coverage in the content area.…
Descriptors: Drama, Integrated Activities, Integrated Curriculum, Journal Writing
Cooper, Patsy – Instructor, 1993
Teachers can help elementary students cope at the beginning of the school year by assisting them in getting to know one another. Writing is a good tool for bridging the gap between personal and school lives. The article suggests writing activities and explains how to create a good writing environment. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Coping, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Competence

Lee, Elizabeth Perritt – English Journal, 1997
Discusses uses learning logs for student assessment. Defines learning logs. Discusses structuring the logs; student voices and responses; a map drawing assignment; and using logs for evaluation. (RS)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Techniques, Journal Writing, Secondary Education