ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some ideas and suggestions for writing research journals. The research journal is one of the most important research methods and is very commonly used by practitioners doing research on their practice. Research journals containing observations, ideas, and, plans have been increasingly used during the past years by those interested in action research. Writing a research journal is an individual matter. Research journals can also contain a great number of vivid descriptions of situations, sometimes called thick descriptions. Action research is usually done in highly contextualized situations with small numbers of participants. Memos are the most frequent kind of entries in research journals. The excerpt is taken from a research journal kept by Bridget when she was an English teacher in a secondary school and was introducing computer use in the teaching of writing. Writing a research journal builds on an everyday skill of many practitioners.
