Dialectical Journal Analysis
Writing a dialectical journal for the first time was actually interesting. Especially spending each day with a leaf. I would get weird looks or questions from my family and friends why I am holding a leaf. If I saw someone holding a deformed leaf in the library, or cafeteria I would react the same way. For a week we have to take at least ten minutes of our time to write down our experience with our object for class. In my case I took my leisure time with a leaf. I was actually surprise to find a leaf because we are in the winter season and most trees loses their leaves due to the temperature. I found the leaf outside of Meier building near the door entrance of Dunkin Donuts. There was a whole bunch of leaves, which made me question how it the tree still has leaves on it. I stop to pick out the leaf. Many students walked in and out of the building. I notice a couple of students had made an odd facial expression, as to why I am randomly picking a leaf. It was an awkward feeling and I walked into class. There were some days where I was in the cafeteria and the library. Looking at the leaf, the shape was like a lip holding it horizontally. The texture of the leaf is firm and flexible like a piece of paper. It was dark green on one side like an
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avocado and light green like Mike Wazowski from the movie Monster Inc. on the other. I took a quick sniff of the leaf and it smelled like a fresh mowed lawn and a hint of dirt. The size of the leaf is as long as a pen and wide as a playing card. Observing the leaf and spending time writing on what I experience was interesting and different each day.
On my first day, I drew a smiley face on the leaf since I am going to spend time for a week. This made me happy every time I look at it along the week. Almost losing my leaf on my third day gave me a slight panic but I found it in my backpack crushed between my notebooks. Looking at the shape I was surprise it was not spilt in half however, the shape was deformed. In general, when I am casually holding the leaf one of my friends or families would look at me oddly. They would either ask me why I am a holding leaf or slowly walk away. Especially, when I was in the library because it is unlikely to see someone with a
leaf. Often, when I would write down my experience into my journal, I never thought I would actually write a lot within ten minutes. I usually have a hard time thinking about what to write or come up with ideas when there is no format to follow. Writing in my journal each day, I realize there were some days that I didn’t expect to write. I was surprise I would write about the leaf and slowly write about something different on what I was thinking or feeling. Ten minutes of writing is actually fast when I have many ideas and experience about the leaf. I also, notice each day I learned I improved of writing critically and thinking about more ideas compared to my first day. Sitting down observing the leaf and the interaction around me, I realized that it helped me become a better critical thinker and writer. What I learned throughout the week, I have reflected back on each day of my experience with my leaf. I have found that seeing the leaf slowly change and the thought of not coming up with ideas to writing in my journal, I notice that there were things I wanted to add or change. For example, the word choices, including more descriptive details about my day and the leaf, and improve my grammar. Writing a dialectical journal for the first time was actually interesting and it had open my thought on writing and applying that it is good to wrong at time and change things.
avocado and light green like Mike Wazowski from the movie Monster Inc. on the other. I took a quick sniff of the leaf and it smelled like a fresh mowed lawn and a hint of dirt. The size of the leaf is as long as a pen and wide as a playing card. Observing the leaf and spending time writing on what I experience was interesting and different each day.
On my first day, I drew a smiley face on the leaf since I am going to spend time for a week. This made me happy every time I look at it along the week. Almost losing my leaf on my third day gave me a slight panic but I found it in my backpack crushed between my notebooks. Looking at the shape I was surprise it was not spilt in half however, the shape was deformed. In general, when I am casually holding the leaf one of my friends or families would look at me oddly. They would either ask me why I am a holding leaf or slowly walk away. Especially, when I was in the library because it is unlikely to see someone with a
leaf. Often, when I would write down my experience into my journal, I never thought I would actually write a lot within ten minutes. I usually have a hard time thinking about what to write or come up with ideas when there is no format to follow. Writing in my journal each day, I realize there were some days that I didn’t expect to write. I was surprise I would write about the leaf and slowly write about something different on what I was thinking or feeling. Ten minutes of writing is actually fast when I have many ideas and experience about the leaf. I also, notice each day I learned I improved of writing critically and thinking about more ideas compared to my first day. Sitting down observing the leaf and the interaction around me, I realized that it helped me become a better critical thinker and writer. What I learned throughout the week, I have reflected back on each day of my experience with my leaf. I have found that seeing the leaf slowly change and the thought of not coming up with ideas to writing in my journal, I notice that there were things I wanted to add or change. For example, the word choices, including more descriptive details about my day and the leaf, and improve my grammar. Writing a dialectical journal for the first time was actually interesting and it had open my thought on writing and applying that it is good to wrong at time and change things.