Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 251 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Since we don't meet this week, there will be no required blog entries. If you missed making entries last week, I'll give you until the end of this week to make them. Next week, it's back to business as usual. See you then.
to make up for an entry, I will write about journal writing and its benefits. I have been journal writing for months. I want to eventually do it everyday and this week I managed to do it for 5 days in a row. I do it for 30 minutes. I do it for therapeutic reasons, to improve my writing and to help me get things done and achieve goals. It has been said that when you write something that you want to do down, it increase your likelihood of doing it. I came across an article about what you can gain from journal writing and that lead to me googling about the benefits of journal writing. I then became interested. From the articles I read, I took from them that journal writing can improve your writing, mental health, understanding of yourself, get things done, achieve goals, resolve issues, make decisions. if you sit to think and write about a certain issue or what decision to make about something in particular, you will be able to solve the issue or arrive at a decision quicker. Journal writing can help you stop putting things off. Things that you need to do or think about. You can have different journals. You can have a goals journal where you write your goals down or just things that you need to do for a particular day. if you fail to do something that you needed to do, rewrite it as something to do for another day. You can also make a gratitude journal to focus on positive things in your life. I have read that even writing about things that do not seem significant to write about like the fact that you have a bed to sleep on. In your gratitude journal, you can make a list of 6 things that you are grateful for every day. Studies have shown that expressing gratitude is a mood lifter
Christopher I agree with you that writing a journal is a good thing to do.I was very sick a few years ago and my memory was affected. I began to write a journal with the things that I want to do daily and another journal for the things I do every day even things I eat I write down. Writing my journals have being very helpful to me.
Thanks prof. you made my life easy
ReplyDeleteto make up for an entry, I will write about journal writing and its benefits. I have been journal writing for months. I want to eventually do it everyday and this week I managed to do it for 5 days in a row. I do it for 30 minutes. I do it for therapeutic reasons, to improve my writing and to help me get things done and achieve goals. It has been said that when you write something that you want to do down, it increase your likelihood of doing it. I came across an article about what you can gain from journal writing and that lead to me googling about the benefits of journal writing. I then became interested. From the articles I read, I took from them that journal writing can improve your writing, mental health, understanding of yourself, get things done, achieve goals, resolve issues, make decisions. if you sit to think and write about a certain issue or what decision to make about something in particular, you will be able to solve the issue or arrive at a decision quicker. Journal writing can help you stop putting things off. Things that you need to do or think about. You can have different journals. You can have a goals journal where you write your goals down or just things that you need to do for a particular day. if you fail to do something that you needed to do, rewrite it as something to do for another day. You can also make a gratitude journal to focus on positive things in your life. I have read that even writing about things that do not seem significant to write about like the fact that you have a bed to sleep on. In your gratitude journal, you can make a list of 6 things that you are grateful for every day. Studies have shown that expressing gratitude is a mood lifter
ReplyDeleteThank you too professor.
ReplyDeleteChristopher I agree with you that writing a journal is a good thing to do.I was very sick a few years ago and my memory was affected. I began to write a journal with the things that I want to do daily and another journal for the things I do every day even things I eat I write down. Writing my journals have being very helpful to me.
ReplyDeleteThank you Professor.
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