Reflection on writing

Even though i am quite aware of the benefits of student journaling, i have to say that journaling for me did not feel a meaningful enterprise. I think this is due largely in part to the requirement to journal on a daily basis. there were days that I found that I truely had something to write about but many of my entries were little more than a contenplation of what i could write about to fulfill what i believed to be an appropriate length for a journal entry. I know that this is a nessecary requirement for the assignment. If all students were just allowed to journal when they felt like it there probably would have been many students who would have had 2-3 entires and the point of having journaling occur is to get students to write on a regular basis as a way to improve their literary skill. The benefit is that it gets all students to become frequent writers. If there had not been an assignment, i would have still written many of my entries out, but this wouldn't be true for many of the students. Also, it should be noted that I may not have enjoyed the assignment because it felt like a chore to me but the project IS school work. It can't all be fun and the point of school work is to teach students and the assignment has doccumented success.