Writing is a tool for learning.
You cannot write clearly about something unless you can think clearly about it. Accordingly, this course requires that you keep an ongoing journal within which you will need to demonstrate clear thinking about the material covered in this course. For this journal, you need to write as though you are addressing yourself in the past, as you were when you were 13 years old. Also, remember that when you were 13, you did not know everything you know now. Therefore, you have to take to time to explain things clearly and carefully to yourself as you were then. .