CSUS Writing Center Internship Journals

Every week for the duration of my internship, I was expected to fill in journals to record my progress across the semester. The journals were meant to summarize the week's tasks, provide details about challenges or new learnings, and expand on specific prompts for the week assigned by the professor. As any documents I created with the students were either taken by the students for their benefit or were private in nature, I could not share any notes or lessons I had created.

I wrote each journal, but the topic prompts that I responded to at the bottom of each page were taken from the course's assignment guidelines. Each week, they changed out to address some new assignment or new perspective we were focusing on.

If the tutoring pedagogy responses gave the professor greater knowledge about my intended areas of focus and what about tutoring stood out to me, then the journals gave a detailed accounting of what I spent my time on from a day-to-day basis. While they still needed to maintain the privacy concerns of the students, hence the absence of any names or identifying characteristics, they were meant to be detailed enough for the professor to glean what each of my sessions looked like as a whole. They also function as an opportunity for reflection, both for my own growth as a tutor and my ability to showcase the work I completed across the semester.