Journal Book (HEINEMANN OP) - Softcover

Fulwiler, Toby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0867091754 ISBN 13: 9780867091755

Publisher: Heinemann, 1991

Synopsis

The academic world has long viewed with unease the use of journals as a learning tool at least in part because although they'rewritten, they're not proper writing at all-often messy, digressive, mechanically flawed. Furthermore, they don't lend themselves to formal evaluation. In recent years, however, as researchers and teachers have focused on the power and purpose of expressive writing, journals and learning have become closely linked.

This book attests to the importance of journals in teaching and learning settings. Its 42 articles, most of them written especially forThe Journal Book, explore the uses of student journals , detailing implications and applications, theory and practice.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book highlights the many and varied uses of diaries in classrooms and stresses the importance of integrating journal writing into the curriculum. It provides practical advice on how teachers can use journals positively and efficiently in most school settings. The contributors look at the use of diaries in different contexts, including teaching humanities and teaching English. The teachers and pupils using them conclude that they are useful tools for teaching, learning and thinking, for testing and revising ideas and experience, and for comparing these ideas with others.

About the Author:

TOBY FULWILER directs the writing program at the University of Vermont, where he also teaches composition and literature courses. Editor of The Journal Book (1987), Fulwiler is also author of College Writing: A Personal Approach to Academic Writing, Second Edition (1997) and coeditor, with Art Young, of Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum (1990) and Writing Across the Disciplines: Research into Practice--all published by Boynton/Cook.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0867091754
• ISBN 13: 9780867091755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416