I've been thinking about Gina's post on assigning journals for a class and I realized something that I never took note of before. In one of my undergraduate humanities classes, the professor assigned journal writing and suggested that we find a journal that we would be comfortable writing in. The other students bought fancy journals from the local bookstore--fancy covers and thick paper--and wrote with expensive pens and different colored inks. I just grabbed an empty lab notebook and wrote in black.
