Read: About Your Writer's Notebook

Information on completing a writer's notebook

How Do I Do It?

The Writer's Notebook is a tool meant to be useful and meaningful for you. 

1. Your own entries can be:

  • point form
  • drawings
  • diagrams
  • pictures
  • explanations
  • questions
  • ideas 
  • responses to readings
  • parts of a draft
  • clippings 
  • poetry
  • dreams and aspirations
  • anything that you might use someday in a piece of writing

2. Teacher-directed

a. At times you will be given an exercise from class to complete in your writer's notebook.