COORDINATION OF JOURNAL USES
DIALOGUE JOURNALS
By keeping a dialogue journal, a "conversation in print" with the teacher, students develop during a semester from self-expressive writers to expressively communicative writers.
LITERARY JOURNALS
By keeping a literary journal (a written record of personal responses to passages from literature) students read actively, responding throughout their reading, not just at the end, and responding immediately and fully.
COORDINATION OF JOURNAL USES
SUBJECT JOURNAL
A subject journal, a record of written responses to expository texts, could serve as the glossary of a student notebook. For an English-class notebook, there are several possible uses for the subject journal-as-glossary. In Section A, students could write responses to background readings such as biographies, histories, and genre studies, just as they write responses to passages from literature in the literary journal. In Section B, they could make a personalized dictionary of literary and linguistic terms for investigation. In Section C, they could make a personalized stylebook of rhetorical, grammatical, and mechanical concerns, regarding their formal papers.