ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on what daily writing looks like in a classroom, explaining why teachers might want to incorporate this practice into a course that already has many curricular demands. The Daybook for students operates the same way it operates for real writers. As the author embraced the need for daily writing as a way to improve the more purposeful assigned writing, prompting became more directed toward connecting writing to the lesson for the day and linking their writing to teacher discussions. The Daybook is a tool for giving every student, no matter the skill level, the time, space, and comfort, to get in touch with their thinking in teacher' course. An authentic audience—Students were writing for a valued audience: their peers. Like the adults in the night class, there will be lots of writing avoidance and a poor self-image.
