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. Entries bunch up, with perhaps 2-3 in one week, and then no more for 10 days. 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.