abstract

All teachers are challenged to reinforce and connecting the learning that takes place in
various “spaces” of a student’s life: home-school, internal-external, and written-oral
contexts. In the following article, I suggest a three-part journal assignment I have
developed to capture and integrate these various moments of edification, using Pre-
Class, In-Class, and Post-Class entries. I pay particular attention to audience, to issues
of “private” and “public” writing. Recounting the scholarship on journal-writing, I then
examine the work and responses of students in different kinds of classes (writing and
literature) and different kinds of institutions (private and state) to suggest the versatility
of this assignment.

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