An agenda item should take the form of a short question or comment but be prepared to explain it. It should be no more than 100 words. Journals Thirty percent of each student's grade will be based on a journal of ten entries. The journal that you keep this semester will be an important part of our class. Your journal will be exploratory writing.
Exploratory writing is part of the process of thinking and a document of it.
The process of writing will stimulate your imagination and help you to generate ideas about our course. The entries that you make in your journal will be of special interest to yourself, because you will write them in your own way. Your journal is the place where you can give full range to your ideas and freedom to your writing style. Entries in your journal should allow you to enjoy writing, actively involve you in issues raised by the course, and prepare you for other more formal writing assignments. Journal entries should be typed, carefully labeled, and dated.