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r Diaries tend to be personal reflections for the

day.
r When writing in the diary ± it is like a
personal letter to the diary. You would
normally start with ³Dear Diary, Today «..´ .
r Entries are daily.
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r m Journal can be like a diary but the events

recorded tend to be for a specific purpose -
a cross between a log and a diary.
r Entries need not be daily bit situational
r Both can include sketches and drawings ±
± Diaries may have doodles.
± Journals sketches of things done or seen or even
artefacts e.g. pictures, tickets, postcards.
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Ñ Decide in what you will Journal

r ÿt could be an old unused notebook.
r ÿt can be a brand new leather bound book
(that you purchased .
r Choose whatever is comfortable to you and
appeals to your imagination.
r Make sure it has enough papers for a year of
journaling
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r ›chedule a Ñ
minute time slot everyday to

write in your journal.
r Best time ± just before you go to bed (but suit
yourself, some prefer early in the morning .
r Make sure you have quiet space to sit and
write.
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r Journaling has been proven in reducing
stress.
r Once you've journaled, you don't carry as
much of what you have written about within
you.
r By journaling, you give yourself a powerful
form of self-expression, and through that
expression you can gain clarity, release, and
relief.
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r You better understand:
± what you want
± what is important to you
± how you feel
r You can create goals and resolutions to
support what you are thinking and
writing about.
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r Journaling helps with your goals and
what you want to accomplish for the
day (month, year, or a lifetime
r ÿt is a tool to help you get those things
done.
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r Creates more personal awareness, and
more focus on the issues that are
important to you.
r The routine and habit of journaling
means making time for yourself
r You can feel the benefit and gain from
doing something specifically for
yourself.
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r m journal is a catalogue of your memories.
r Over time, your memories become an
irreplaceable treasure that can be looked at
years from now, by you, or, if you wish, by
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üactual personal recounts

r Tells µwhat happened¶ ± details of an event
that happened to you.
r Events are written in the order that it
occurred.
r Details future events e.g. your goals,
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ºas a µcomposition¶ structure

r ÿntroduction
± WºmT the event was, WºERE and WºEN it
occurred and WºO was there.
r Body
± The series of events that occurred
± mspirations that you want happen.
r Conclusion
± Your personal comment.




 

r pse of adjectives to add detail to the

description
r pse connectors to describe the sequence of
events (then, after, next
r pse of Ñst and 3rd person
± Ñst person ± ÿ, me, myself (personal recount
± 3rd person ± they, we, them, the class, the
audience (factual recount .
r pse past tenses to retell the events




 

r pse of nouns, proper nouns, noun

phrases, noun clauses
± The names of people, places and events
to make it clear that you are writing about
real things.
± (noun phrase: group of words without a
verb but main word is a noun
± (noun clauses: group of words that contain
a verb but main word is still a noun
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r Decide on a Journal topic

± Must be about something that occurs almost daily
r üor the next week, journal about that event
or topic.