JOURNAL
WRITING
Your journal is for reflection
of the assignments, activities, field trips and readings experienced
in the University Colloquium. You have much freedom as to what you
make part of your journal. The journal should be creative and additions
should be diverse in style. Entries can be written, drawn, painted,
collaged, photographed or collected. Writings can be prose or poetry,
lyrical or practical, fragmented or complete. The successful journalist
varies style and media, using whatever they feel best captures the
sense of the message or idea being immortalized in the journal. The
adventurous journalist attempts to utilize entry methods that are
new and sometimes beyond what is expected. A writer may attempt a
watercolor, an artist might choose to analyze, a busy person might
choose to take his time. Below are some suggestions
for your journal:
- only put in positive
reflections balance the images with
writing and vice versaonly do fun stuff in
the journalbe creative, use more
than one mediumtake notes on 3x5 cards
and either transfer them to your journal or gluestik them in.use a variety of writing
styles, colors and formatsreflect on each field
tripincorporate tangible
object in your journalreflect on the Florida
book you are reading
- include quotes from
your readings
Through the ages, right
into today's creative world, journals have been the working-thinking
place of great thinkers, inventors, and artists; Einstein, Darwin,
Margaret Mead, Rachel Carson, Thoreau, Emerson, Muir, Pinchot, Gandhi,
Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jefferson, Fuller and Soleri. Now it
is time for you.
Journal
Writing /DL
Colloquium/Spring 2006
