Journaling is about trying to express your thoughts onto a piece of paper. To be clear, it can be any topic of your choice. For an English class, even if there is the choice to free-write, the prompts assigned were a catch, to say the least.

Based on a new agenda we had from the class calendar for each week, most of these were either a rhetorical analysis about what we liked or what we’ve learned previously, or an open-to-write entry. It was a way to encourage us to write traditionally because we rely too much on technology to perfect our unique writing styles on paper, and how easy it is to modify everything without the paper being ripped because of excessive erasure.