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A Book of One's Own: People and their diaries by Thomas Mallon, 1984. The Journal Book, edited by Toby Fulwiler, 1987. (Collection of essays on using journals in K12 classrooms.) Journal to the Self: twenty-two paths to personal growth by Kathleen Adams, 1990. A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal-Writing Journey by Marlene A. Schiwy, 1996.
Diary and commonplace book. [28] Claude Mauriac: Unknown: 69 years: 1927–1995: Lejeune gives both 68 and 69 years. "We have yet to count the total number of pages, but the journal measures three and a half meters." [29] William Lyon Mackenzie King: Unknown: 57 years: 1893–1950: Word count not stated; the manuscript exceeds 50,000 pages. [30]
[2] [3] It has been used for multiple books in a series following the diarist's life over many years, such as the Adrian Mole series, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and the Dork Diaries series, all of which chronicle the lives of characters who start a diary as children or adolescents and continue their diary as they mature over time.
The word "journal" may be sometimes used for "diary," but generally a diary has (or intends to have) daily entries (from the Latin word for 'day'), whereas journal-writing can be less frequent. Although a diary may provide information for a memoir , autobiography or biography , it is generally written not with the intention of being published ...
Tesla, aged 37, 1893, photo by Napoleon Sarony. Tesla wrote a number of books and articles for magazines and journals. [1] Among his books are My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla; The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, compiled and edited by David Hatcher Childress; and The Tesla Papers.
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them is a non-fiction 1999 book written by The Freedom Writers, a group of students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and their teacher Erin Gruwell.
He was believed to be the most prolific diarist in the history of American letters, writing an estimated 22 million words. [1] He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the world's longest diary , until the journals of Robert Shields of Dayton, Washington , with 37.5 million words and crammed with minutes of daily living ...
A poetic journal is a literary genre combining aspects of poetry with the daily, or near daily, "takes" of journal writing. Born of twin impulses: to track change in daily life and to memorialize experience, poetic journals owe allegiances to Asian writing — particularly the Japanese haibun of Matsuo Bashō, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, and the poetic diaries of Masaoka Shiki — as ...