Process+Journal

Process Journal
 * || List the items you worked on and/or completed each day. || * What road did you choose? Thoughts Reflections Concerns Inspirations Contemplations ||
 * 7/4/12 || 1: i chose tolkien because I found his books interesting, and i am glad i chose this. 5: information on his life is easiest to find at websites with timelines of his life. || For this last reflection, you should choose four of the nine questions listed here: # Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice?
 * 1) What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those?
 * 2) What facts about your topic interested you most? Did this kind of project help you get a better understanding of your topic than you might have with a more traditional kind of research paper? If so, why and in what ways did it help?
 * 3) How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information?
 * 4) What did you learn about the research process from this project? Consider: the best places to find certain kinds of information; what sources are most credible; the best order for conducting your investigation; how to record information and sources; anything else that you learned or that confirmed what you already knew.
 * 5) What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover?
 * 6) What criteria did you use in deciding on the genres to include in your paper? What piece was the hardest or most challenging to write? Why? The most fun or interesting? Why?
 * 7) How did you decide on the organization of the pieces into a cohesive whole? Consider not only organization but use of transitional devices and packaging.
 * 8) What did you learn by working with your peers on revising and editing? Did they give you helpful advice? What was most helpful to you? What kinds of things did you learn from reading their pieces? ||

Adapted from ©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Process Journal Scoring Checklist Total Process Journal Points /50 points

Score A Date 5/28 _10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. _5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _ 4 points There were no journal entries at the time of scoring. Score B _ Date 6/4 _10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. _5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. Score C _30 points Date 6/8 22 points _10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. _5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. Plus _10 points Student answered more than four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. _8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. _5-6 points Students answered some of the final reflection questions. The responses answered the questions with little elaboration or insight. _ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.