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Assalamualaikum wbt.
Please see this message as Last Reminder.

A lot of you have 2 posts of your Padlet Journal Writing Task. Although I have told you to upload your own journal up to week 8, none of you succeeded. To make things worse, some of your Padlet were never updated.

Therefore I will have to ask you to complete all your 5 journal posts by:

Date: 17 February 2022
Day:  Thursday
Time: 12.00 am.

Failure to do so will result in deduction of marks.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for any inquiries.

Summary:
Task: Journal Writing Task 10%
Due Date of Submission: Thursday 12.00 am

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1. Muadz Shahir Bin Ikram
DT04-0428/2021
https://padlet.com/muadzikram03/gbf5zuzwz7nmjdnq

2.MUHAMMAD AMAR AKMAL BIN KAMARULZAMAN https://padlet.com/amaisme06/Bookmarks

3.Zuraihan Farhana binti Mohd Amzan
https://padlet.com/zuraihanfarhana13/Bookmarks

4. Khadijah Maisarah binti Mohd Nasir
https://padlet.com/khadijhmaisrh117/Bookmarks

5. HAJAR AINI BINTI HARIS
https://padlet.com/hajarainiharis167/Bookmarks

6. HAJAR BINTI MOHD MUSLIM
https://padlet.com/hajarmohdmuslim/Bookmarks

7. Muhammad Haikal Afif Bin Zaidi
DT04-0430/2021
https://padlet.com/tmhaikal16_/Bookmarks

8. Abu 'Ubaidah Bin Hamidi
https://padlet.com/ubaidahhamidi/Bookmarks

9. Nazhef bin Suhaimi
DT04-0433/2021
https://padlet.com/nazhefsuhaimi14/4_flat

10. Muhammad Khoidir bin Mohd Noor
DT04-0432/2021
https://padlet.com/khoidirmohdnor/hafizmasyi

11. Ulfah Hawwa' Binti Muslich Achmad
DT04-0444/2021
https://padlet.com/hawwamuslich99/Bookmarks

12.RABI'ATUL 'ADAWIYAH BINTI HALIMI
DT04-0440/2021
https://padlet.com/adawiyahmi09/Bookmarks

13.SITI NORZULAIKA BINTI ROSLIMAN
DT04-0442/2021
https://padlet.com/ctiezulaikha22/Bookmarks

14. NOR HAZWANI BINTI HISHAM
DTO4-0435/2021
https://padlet.com/wxniieyy_/740352k616kq9fg0

15. NUR MUHAMMAD IRSYAD BIN MOHAMAD TAJULDDIN SHAH
DT04-0438/2021
https://padlet.com/nurirsyadnurirsyad/Bookmarks

16. NURINA FATNIN BINTI MOHAMMAD ROFAIE
DT04-0439/2021
https://padlet.com/nurinafatnin89/Bookmarks

17. AINA BADRIAH BINTI MOHD KHAIRI
DT04-0421/2021
https://padlet.com/ainabadriah2021/Bookmarks

18.THOHA YASIN BIN IKMAL HISHAM
DT04-0443/2021
https://padlet.com/yasinthoha09/aRighteousServant

19.MUHAMMAD HAZIQ AIMAN BIN AHMAD FAUZI
DT04-0431/2021
https://padlet.com/AiZiQ_EmSeM/Bookmarks

20.AHMAD FURQAN HAFIZ BIN ISHANUL FAZLI
DT04-0420/2021
https://padlet.com/furqanisme123/Bookmarks

21. KHAULAH NABILA BT MOHD AZMAN
DT04-0427/2021
https://padlet.com/khaulahnabila44/Bookmarks

22.NIK MUHAMMAD MUKHLIS BIN NIK MOHD NOOR
DT04-0434/2021
https://padlet.com/nikmukhlis29/Bookmarks

23. Rafiqah shakirah binti Mohd nakhaie
DT04-0441/2021
https://padlet.com/rafiqah150502/Bookmarks

24.HAMIZUL WAFI BIN ABDUL GHANI
DT04-0425/2021
https://padlet.com/zoulfiey59/Bookmarks

25. NUR FATIMAH BINTI KHIRUDDIN
DT04-0437/2021
https://padlet.com/fatimahkhiruddin/Bookmarks

26.AMRU BASHAR BIN MOHD SHOKRO
DT04-0422/2021
https://padlet.com/amrubashar66/Bookmarks

27.ABDUL QAYYUM BIN MOHD ROFI
DT04-0418/2021
https://padlet.com/qayyum03rofi/Bookmarks

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Assalamualaikum wbt.
Please see this message as Last Reminder.

A lot of you have 2 posts of your Padlet Journal Writing Task. Although I have told you to upload your own journal up to week 8, none of you succeeded. To make things worse, some of your Padlet were never updated.

Therefore I will have to ask you to complete all your 5 journal posts by:

Date: 17 February 2022
Day:  Thursday
Time: 12.00 am.

Failure to do so will result in deduction of marks.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for any inquiries.

Summary:
Task: Journal Writing Task 10%
Due Date of Submission: Thursday 12.00 am

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Do you keep a journal? I do. It is how I remember the travels I've taken, the life experiences I've enjoyed, and the litter boxes I've cleaned.

We are writers, and so it is even more helpful for us to journal. Not sure yet? Let me share with you some tips from my journaling experience for how to write a journal.

4 Advantages of Keeping a Journal

There are many reasons why it is a good idea to keep a journal. I want to share four big ones with you.

1. Remember details

When I traveled to Europe in 1978 I kept a journal. I have notes from the trip to Greece where I wiped out on a moped, weeded sugar beets on Kibbutz Reshafim in Israel, and hitchhiked through occupied territory in the south of Isreal.

There were several details of my trip, that I had completely forgotten until I re-read the journals.

December 16th, 1978
Walking to the orchard from the kibbutz the sun was so hot I stopped and just listened to the silence. (Walking I could hear stones crunch) I had to take off my sweater the sun was so intense.

Recording the details of your life can enrich your stories. Last month for The Spring Writing Contest at The Write Practice, I wrote a story about when the IRS called me to say I owned money.

In my first draft, I wrote that the amount they said I owed was, $638 dollars. After I had completed the first draft I went back to the notes I had written in my journal, and the correct amount was over six thousand dollars. $6,846.48. Well, maybe there are some things we don't want to remember.

Thankfully, I didn't send the money. It wasn't the "real" IRS.

"People who keep journals have life twice." -Jessamyn West

2. Find old friends

Keeping a journal can help you find old friends. One of the women I met on November 26th, 1978, wrote down her address. I found her on Facebook and just sent her a message. (Social media and Google can also help, but the journal did remind me of her name.)

I will let you know if she responds to my Facebook message. It has been almost forty years since she lent me a pair of gloves when I scraped my hand on the pavement when I fell off my moped.

3. Help process feelings and ideas

When you keep thoughts in your head it can be hard to know how you think and feel. Writing down how you feel will help you process your emotions, as feelings become words, which can be then be edited.

4. Preserve the writer's history

When you are dead and a famous writer, your journals will give your readers insight into how you thought and what your life was like.

You may never sell more than one hundred copies of your book, you may never publish your writing, or your journals may only be read by the mice that crawl through your basement. Or your journals will be read by zombies after the zombie apocalypse, sharing insight into how you felt and thought.

If you don't want anyone to read your journal, keep it in a locked box and swallow the key. (Please don't really swallow the key. It would be unpleasant to have to find it again, and you might choke.) Put the key in a safe spot, and then remember where you put it.

6 Tips for How to Write a Journal

Now you know why journaling can be helpful. But how should you journal? It is very personal, and you should do what works best for you. But I will give you some tips to help you get started.

1. Choose your kind of journal

You have several options for how to keep your journal.

A book, where you write with a pen or pencil onto paper: Write in a book that is not so pretty you are afraid to write in it. Keep the size small enough you don't mind carrying it in your messenger bag, and big enough you can read your handwriting. Do not try journaling at night when the only paper you have on your bedside table is a bandaid. The next morning I couldn't read my writing on the band-aid, and the idea I wanted to journal was lost.

The advantage of paper is you can write without having to be plugged into an electronic device. You don't have to worry about a dead battery, and you can write even when the sun is bright or the airline makes you turn off your electronic devices.

The disadvantage to a paper journal is if you lose the journal and you didn't make a copy of it, you have lost all of the writing.

Software: There are several software applications on the market you can use to journal. Be sure they sync to the cloud, as you don't want to lose your entries because you fry your computer hard-drive.

Journey and Day One can add photographs and text, and export all of your entries into a PDF. You can also journal in Microsoft Word or Scrivener and save your files to a cloud-based program that will keep your files safe if you lose your computer or pour water on your keyboard.

2. Date your entry

You think you will remember when it happened, but without a written date, you might forget.

3. Tell the truth

The journal is a record of how you felt and what you did. Telling the truth will make you a reliable storyteller.

If you haven't cleaned the seven litter boxes for a week, don't write that you clean them every day simply because you want your readers one hundred years from now to think you had good habits.

4. Write down details

Record details like the time, location, who you were with, what you were wearing. Details will help bring the memory alive when you record using your five senses.

To this day, if I smell a certain kind of Japanese soup, I can remember vividly the day I flew to Korea to renew my Japanese visa, only to discover the Japanese embassy was closed for a traditional Japanese holiday.

5. Write down what you felt

What you were thinking? Were you mad? Sad? Happy? Write down why.

6. Write a lot or a little

A journal entry doesn't have to be three pages long. It can be a few words that describe what happened, a few sentences about the highlight of your day, or it can be a short description of an event from your day, where you describe details to help you remember what happened. Like, what time of day was it? What sound do you remember?

Your journal entry might be a drawing, a poem, or a list of words or cities you drove through. It is your journal, and you have the freedom to be creative.

When to Journal

There is no right or wrong time to write in a journal. Write when you will remember to do it. Do you always brush your teeth before you go to bed? Have writing in your journal be part of your bedtime routine. Perhaps put it on your bedside table, or beside your hammock, or on the floor beside your futon.

If you are a morning person, consider keeping your journal on the table where you drink your morning coffee, tea, water, milk, or orange juice.

These are only suggestions. You don't have to write down your feelings or why you felt a certain way. I hate being told what to do. Even if it is a good idea.

Keep a journal if you want to. And if you think writing in a journal is stupid, don't keep one. You might have written all day on your novel, and then some writer with six cats and seven litter boxes wants you to keep a journal.

Only record the details you want to remember, or the details you don't think you will forget. Which is like saying, only floss the teeth you want to keep.

Do you write in a journal? Do you think writing in a journal is a good idea for a writer, or a bad idea? Please tell us why in the comments.

PRACTICE

Write for fifteen minutes about some aspect of your day as though you were writing in a journal. Your journal entry might be a drawing, a poem, or a list of words or cities you drove through.

Please share your writing and comment on someone else's practice today. We learn by writing and by reading.

Hope you are well.

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Do you keep a journal? I do. It is how I remember the travels I've taken, the life experiences I've enjoyed, and the litter boxes I've cleaned. We are writers, and so it is even more helpful for us to journal. Not sure yet?