Express aesthetic or artistic impressions of the course content. Formulate questions about the reading. Analyze the central argument in the reading. Criteria of Evaluation For some journals, the central question an evaluator will ask is whether or not the journal responds seriously to the specific assignment. However, journal assignments that require very subjective and personal impressions and observations pose special difficulties for evaluation.
Entries are provocative, lively, and diverse.
Entries vary widely in length, but regularly go on for some time to reflect and accommodate more extended thought. Regular entries limited to required reading responses. Entries are sometimes lively and spirited, sometimes flat. Entries occasionally lengthy and complicated, but often brief and sketchy. Entries irregular, with noticeable time gaps, and do not meet required reading responses.