Dialogue Journals

The message board e.g. Yahoo Clubs, may be used for writing ‘Dialogue Journals’. ‘Dialogue Journals’ are free style writings that you can use to express yourself on almost any topic. Students are encouraged to write back to each other by replying, giving suggestions, advice or feedback to the messages.

Journals are often used for developing writing topics, and they may additionally be used to:

1. Confide your hopes.

2. Write about your own history: an event in your family's past, a troubling
incident in your life, a change you have seen.

3. Analyze a relationship that troubles you.

4. Explore your reactions to movies, television, and music as
well as your readings.

5. Practice various forms or styles of writing- poems or songs, for instance, or
reviews of movies or reports for TV news.

6. Pursue ideas - maybe a theory about human psychology or business management that came up in class, or a social concern.

7. Build ideas for specific writing assignments.

Please DO NOT be afraid to make mistakes; that’s what language learning is all about. Please feel free to ask me more questions or give suggestions about this activity. Please try writing to the site at least once a week. I strongly advise you to use this task to your advantage for some free writing.