The journal also allows you to experiment as a writer. Sometimes a poem or a dialogue where you argue or debate with yourself is the only way to express an idea. Draw a detailed picture one day. Your teacher may assign a subject for at least some of your journal entries. Explore the world around you to find inspiration to complete the remainder.
Many everyday activities stimulate vivid journal entries.
Set yourself an observation task. Describe everything on your desk and explore each item's meaning for you. Observe for fifteen minutes the people who sit near you in the Johnson Center. Questions Use your journal to formulate and record questions that are important to you. Think about questions you have about your academic work, about your personal life or values, about items you read in the newspaper or in the books for one of your classes.