Over the course of the first couple weeks of the semester, keep a journal of your writing. Note what you write, to which audience, in what setting, for what purpose, the steps you took, with what materials, and with what level of ease or difficulty. “Writing” includes texts, emails, tweets, social media posts, course papers, to-do lists, all of it. Journal entries can be short, ideally completed in 15 minutes a day. You should have at least four entries per week.

You will use these journal entries to write a narrative seminar paper during our first unit of the semester. Therefore, it is important that you keep up to date with your journal entries these next couple weeks. To that end, I may conduct a quick check of your entries before the journal is due on February 4. Please be prepared.

Submission Guidelines

You will submit your writing journal entries with your Writing Narrative draft. I will not read your entries word-for-word; instead I will simply skim them as I check the number of entries. As a reminder, your writing journal is meant to help you complete the Unit 1 project by giving you data to analyze about your own writing processes, habits, and experiences.