Midterm Journal Assessment Sheet

Reflection on Content

  • Describe a few of the connections you see between your different entries?
  • As you reflect on your entries, do you find any contradictions between one entry and another? Or even within one entry?
  • Compare your first entry and your latest entry. Are their similarities to the types of questions and topics you’re focusing on? Do you notice any differences or changes in what and/or how you’re observing and thinking through your observations?
  • Is there content that you wished you had of been able to focus on and/or explore in your journals?
  • Based on the content of your journal entries thus far, pose two critical questions related to this course that you might explore in your final project?

Reflecting on Form

  • Describe the medium and form of your journal at this point of the semester (i.e. blog site, scrap book, diary, three binder with document inserts).
  • How does this form bring together your various entries in ways that another form wouldn’t?

Reflection on Process and Experience

  • When do you journal? Where do you journal? How long do you spend on your journal? Do you edit and/or revise your entries?
  • What types of non-word based journal entries / contributions have you included in your journal?
  • Reflect on how you felt about doing this assignment in the first two weeks and how you feel about doing the assignment now? Has your physical, mental, emotional experience with the project changed in any way?
  • Which journal entry did did you enjoy doing the most? Why?

Reflecting Forward

  • What about your journaling process would you like to modify for the second half of the semester?
  • What about the way you approach the content of your journal entries would you like to modify in the second half of the semester?
  • What about the overall form would you like to modify in the second half of the semester?
  • What about the ways you reflect on and make connections between entries would you like to modify in the second half of the semester?
  • What about your journaling experience do you hope to adjust in the second half of the semester?
  • What about your journaling process, content, form, reflection, and/or experience do you currently feel good about and hope to continue and/or develop further in the second part of the semester?

Featured Journal Entry

  • Please identify one entry that you would like for me to consider and provide feedback on.
  • Make sure you have clearly marked the entry in your journal and/or provided me with enough information to find the entry easily.

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