What's a Process Journal?

    A Personal Project process journal is an ongoing record of students' work on the project. It can take many different forms, depending on the topic of your project and the nature of your goal. Generally speaking, there are two types of process journal entries: formal, and informal. While the formal journal entries are designed to give you time to step back and reflect, the informal ones might simply record something that you thought or learned for later use. Both types of journal entries are equally important

     

     

    Informal Journal Entries

    Formal Journal Entries
    • Record actions, ideas, thoughts and plans
    • Document research for later use
    • Capture learning or progress.
    • Record notes on research or interviews
     
    • Reflect on thinking, skills, ideas and how these have changed or developed
    • Analyze the importance of a fact or idea that has been discovered
    • Explain the rationale for a decision or a process
    • Connect learning to the five Approaches to Learning skill categories (thinking skills, research skills, affective skills, communication skills and social skills).
     
    Examples: Examples:
     
    • Reflective paragraphs submitted after supervisory meetings. These are submitted on Turnitin.com.
      • Journal Entry #1 is located here.
       
    • Brief notes from critical time periods in the process (i.e. immediately after encountering and solving a problem of some sort).