Entries usually brief and fragmentary. Entries willing to speculate and try to make connections between this course and other courses. Entries draw connections between course material and the writer's lived experience. Some entries willing to pose questions or to speculate. Most entries discuss conclusions and assumptions rather than question them.
Entries seem cursory, the result of a class duty rather than interest.
Minimal effort to speculate or to reach for more than obvious conclusions. Minimal attempt to make connections to other courses or life outside the classroom. The journal has become a vehicle of self-discovery for the writer. Over time, the journal evolves a set of questions, issues, or concerns specific to the writer, and specific entries identify and explore these issues. Entries show the writer has occasionally re-read earlier entries or returned to earlier questions and issues.