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Students' beliefs about summary/reaction journals.

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| March 22, 2004 | Knowlton, Dave S.; Heffren, Beth; Fish, Natalie; Eschmann, Amy; Voss, Holle | COPYRIGHT 2004 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

The last four authors wrote summary/reaction journals to fulfill a course requirement. Based on their experiences, they report in this paper three virtues of summary/reaction journals. Namely, journals (a) provided an impetus for improving their own reading skills, (b) caused them to learn more course content, and (c) allowed them to learn about themselves and their own beliefs. In spite of these benefits, there are drawbacks to summary/reaction journal writing. The authors mention a few of these drawbacks at the end of the paper. The authors conclude the paper by offering advice to both professors who might consider assigning journals and students who ...

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