The Journal is a tool that is designed to help you summarize your personal react

The Journal is a tool that is designed to help you summarize your personal reactions to the semester’s weekly lessons. You should reflect on your awareness of conflict in your life and how you are managing it. In your journal you should be reflecting on which theories and tools that are presented in the course can help you manage conflict in a less stressful way in the future. It is your conflict diary.
In keeping this diary of the conflict principles and your application of conflict principles to your daily life, It should reflect how these theories and principles are beneficial to you. This is a learning tool for you to use now, throughout the course, at the end of the course and beyond. The journal should include a reference to some or all of the following categories:
READINGS, 2. INTERACTIONS, 3. LECTURES, 4. DISCUSSIONS IN THE COURSE, 5. EVERYDAY LIFE SITUATIONS.
For example, here are some questions you should consider when writing your journal.
What struck you as significant?
Was it a principle we discussed that you discovered could be applied in your everyday life?
Did you notice life actions that you used that were related to what we were discussing?
In citing something significant that you read, it would be of interest knowing, why did you find this citation or website worthy of mention? To save space, a synopsis of what you found significant is all that is needed to carry on a discussion.
This journal is for you to have after the class ends. Record what is meaningful to you, not me. Many students have remarked that they found the idea of a journal a pain at the beginning of class. At the end they welcomed the existence of their journals. They could see where they started, where they ended up, and the significant knowledge, personal feeling and satisfaction they gained over the period of keeping the journal. Put yourself into this learning tool and you will be rewarded.