What is Journal Writing

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The process of a person responding to prompts and writing about his or her thoughts and feelings. While journal writing is typically associated with writing classrooms, writing teachers including Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg advocate that journal writing can be done by anyone, anywhere. Learn more in: Constantly Connected: Managing Stress in Today's Technological Times

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The process of a person responding to prompts and writing about his or her thoughts and feelings. While journal writing is typically associated with writing classrooms, writing teachers including Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, and Donald Murray advocate that journal writing can be done by anyone, anywhere. Journal writing can be adapted to create pain journals, where patients record the level of pain felt and the actions which caused the pain. Pain journals can subsequently be shared with medical professionals to enhance the healing process. Students in an English classroom, patients in a physical therapy clinic, and readers of this chapter in their living rooms can pick up a pen, paper, and just write. Learn more in: Educational Research Narratives of Healing

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The process of responding to prompts and writing about thoughts and feelings. While journal writing is typically associated with writing classrooms, writing teachers including Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg advocate that journal writing can be done by anyone, anywhere. Learn more in: Narratives of Writing as Healing

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The process of a person responding to prompts and writing about his or her thoughts and feelings. While journal writing is typically associated with writing classrooms, writing teachers including Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, and Donald Murray advocate that journal writing can be done by anyone, anywhere. Journal writing can be adapted to create pain journals, where patients record the level of pain felt and the actions which caused the pain. Pain journals can subsequently be shared with medical professionals to enhance the healing process. Students in an English classroom, patients in a physical therapy clinic, and readers of this chapter in their living rooms can pick up a pen, paper, and just write. Learn more in: Choose Health: Tools for a Healthy Lifestyle

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The process of a person responding to prompts and writing about his or her thoughts and feelings. Even though journal writing is typically associated with writing classrooms, writing teachers including Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, and Donald Murray advocate that journal writing can be done by anyone, anywhere. Journal writing can also be used as a catalyst for change, as when Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers used journal writing as a social action project. Learn more in: Research as Curriculum Inquiry: Helping College Students with Anxiety

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The process of a person responding to prompts and writing about his or her thoughts and feelings. Even though journal writing is typically associated with writing classrooms, writing teachers including Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg advocate that journal writing can be done by anyone, anywhere, including patients in a hospital. Learn more in: Narratives of Integrative Health Coaching

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Journal writing is as “expressive, personal writing in the first person about ideas that the writer perceives to be important. It can be broad in scope or narrow, focusing on response to one academic subject or drawing connections from the whole of the writer’s frame of reference ( Fulwiler, 1982 , p. 17). Learn more in: Digital Storytelling in an EFL Class: A Digital Immigrant's Reflection and Digital Natives' Perceptions

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The process of a person responding to prompts and writing about his or her thoughts and feelings. While journal writing is typically associated with writing classrooms, writing teachers including Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, and Donald Murray advocate that journal writing can be done by anyone, anywhere. Students in an English classroom, patients in a physical therapy clinic, and readers of this chapter in their living rooms can pick up pen, paper, and just write. Learn more in: Enhancing Health Education with Collaborative Narratives