Presents dialog journal writing as an effective communication medium between student teachers and professors. Combining the best features of writing and speaking, this device allows a wide use of language functions and encourages participants to solve problems, share personal meanings, and develop an audience sense and a capacity for…

Discusses the use of student journals in a second-semester university French class. Students write informally in their journals about topics that are of personal interest to them. The instructor then writes comments about the topic and also corrects the vocabulary, grammar, and idiomatic errors of each journal entry. (SED)

Excerpts from law students' journals illustrate themes of their early experiences with law school, including idealism, high expectations, exhilaration, frustration, stress, conflict, boredom, alienation, and despair. (MSE)

This book presents an eighth grade science teacher's diary. For 36 weeks during the 1998-99 school year, this middle school teacher explored her teaching life on the World Wide Web. Each week, hundreds of visitors to MiddleWeb followed the ups and downs of her professional journey, experiencing her enthusiasm at the opening of school, watching as…

Describes a program whereby foster parents, social workers, and parents are trained to help foster children increase understanding of their lives and decrease confusion about their identities. Integral to the program is the child's collecting information into a Life Story Book. (Author/DB)

Describes an assignment in an introductory speech course in which students record specified information in a daily journal. The record of experience is used in describing, interpreting, and discussing their value systems. (JMF)

An adult learner of Spanish presents a diary outlining the process of learning Spanish during her five-week program in South America. (AM)

Reports on the phonological form of one child's productive vocabulary from age 0;10 to 1;8 with primary focus on his production of multisyllabic targets. Findings indicate that there is a developmental and perhaps maturational limitation in the capacity to carry out the processes underlying word and sentence production. (33 references) (Author/CK)

This article describes how diaries were implemented in a study of the use of archives and archival finding aids by history graduate students. The issues concerning diary use as a data collection technique are discussed as well as the different types of diaries. (Author)

Examines diaries kept by 8 adults (born between 1856 and 1876) over a 70-year period of their lives. Analyzes the complexity of the narrative structure and the cohesion of the text. Finds that the diarists' narratives became structurally more complex across the life span, although they became less cohesive as ambiguous anaphors increased. (KEH)

Family caregivers to demented elders (n=43) kept 14-day diaries of caregiving activities, disruptive patient behaviors, and daily mood. Findings indicate that some caregivers are highly distressed by caregiving demands, some report moderate levels of distress, and others show no relationship between mood and daily events. (JPS)

Advances several explanations of why loyalty may not bring expected benefits; tests these explanations by examining responses to dissatisfaction in the everyday lives of partners in ongoing dating relationships. A diary study of dating partners revealed that partners disagreed on the occurrence of loyalty. Other findings are discussed. (RJM)

Explores the expressive forms of writing (diaries, journals, "freewrites," and responsive logs) of students. Examines gender as an important component of the social and political framework in which students learn about genres of writing. (RS)

Compared expressive vocabulary data from a systematic diary study of one child's early language development with data from longitudinal administration of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories spoken vocabulary checklist (CDI). The CDI underestimated the number of words in the diary study. Logistic curves were the best-fitting model…