I really liked being able to keep a written journal; when I was writing in that, I found that I was thinking more about the content of what I was writing and it was much more personal. I would include a lot more tangents, anecdotes, and doodles that I have trouble incorporating into my online journal. I feel like when I'm writing something (especially when I know that anyone can read it) I try to make it a lot more polished and I end up taking a lot longer to think of something to write about. In previous journals, after doing that day's reading, I would just write down whatever I was thinking about, even if it wasn't totally relevant. I had a lot of fun doing that kind of writing, and I know that keeping a written journal has been an option, but I would always feel guilty because if I had enough free time to do that, I felt like I should be working on my online journal or an upcoming paper instead.
I don't know that getting rid of the online journals altogether would be a good idea, because I think that some people have definitely benefited from them, but I wasn't really a huge fan of them.
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Thanks for your thoughts. I realize (and have had second-hand evidence on occasion) that y'all talk about these books outside of class, but in terms of the journal serving as an extension of your participation in class (which is a portion of your credit for the course), this way I can be privy to these conversations! (Of course, you could always pass around your notebooks for each other to comment on, too--that never occurred to me before . . .)
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