College literary journal: the origin of blogging?

This piece about blogging may be of interest to people wanting to think about reflective practice.

Eagle-Eyed Editor

Somebody in here a blogger? You never know…… Image courtesy of Seemann, Morguefile.

During my college days, I ended up taking a lot of English literature classes which counted toward my degree. There are several that I still recall. One was a funny Mark Twain class and I remember the professor holding up the entire class with a banana. (Don’t even go there.) Another was a class about British literature — my nickname for it was “Brit Lit”.

In the third class, my professor gave us quite a puzzling assignment. All of us were to keep a literary journal about the books that we read, handing it in at intervals so the professor could see what we’d written.

Huh? Literary journal? What’s that?

It was the first time I’d seen an entire group of college students completely perplexed. We were College Students, used to writing down Very Important Thoughts in our…

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