I need help on a dialectic journal, has anyone ever done one?

Asked by Ailia (1363

) July 31st, 2009

I am writing a dialectic journal over call of the wild and this is my first time. I have some questions for the quotations and the literary elements. Is it better to do one passage for every page or just skip around for the really important; and if I just do the really important ones should my responses be long? And for the Lit. elements am I supposed to include theme or include it in the Other Lit. elements in the back of the journal? And if so, do I just write theme and list individually everyone of them or do I put something like ancestry-theme and so on???
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Disclaimer: I’ve never done one.

Look at quotes you find to be important and put them on the left page, and then put the co-responding commentary on the right hand page. Maybe section it off by chapter, and put literary elements at the back of every chapter as a review. Organize them however you feel appropriate. The point is to learn how to read critically.

However, if it’s an assignment, the teacher may have very specific criteria for what he/she wants. The rubric for the assignment should obviously take precedence over my advice :P

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