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The students just finished their first draft of their second paper. Second drafts will probably be due on Friday.

I collected their journals for the second time this semester. While reading them, I came to a realization: I need better journal topics for them. Only one assignment was really good, and even that, a bunch of students did only minimally. In fact, so minimally that they might as well not have had the assignment. The journals were very disappointing this time around.

So I seek journal ideas. Those of you who took Freshman Comp (or something equivalent), were you ever given a journal topic that you happen to remember and I could steal?

( student ranting, cut to protect the not-so innocent )