Keeping a Notebook

In the old days, I used to require all my students to keep a notebook. They would write for ten minutes a day and I'd collect their notebooks every week and read them over and conscientiously put comments in the margin. But after a while I came to my senses and asked "Why make my students do something that is perhaps good for some students and just busy work for others? Why make students do what you can't keep doing consistently yourself? If it's really good for students, then they'll see it's good; if it's not, then why force them to continue doing it?" So nowadays, I encourage students experiment with notebooks and quit if they don't find them useful. In my English 110 classes, I give them a few piddly extra credit points for trying them out and many of those students who try notebooks out actually continue keeping them long after the course is over.

So . . . here are some notebook things.

English 110 Notebook Extra Credit Assignment

Things People Sometimes Do in their Notebooks

Examples

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