Literary scholars like Lynn Bloom consider truly private diaries as "bare-boned" works which are "written with neither art nor artifice." In 1995, a "pile of bones" arrived at one person's door delivered by Federal Express. They were the bones of her great aunt Annie Ray--fragments of the diary she kept from 1881 to…

The use of personal documents in social science research, and in particular, methods and limitations of journal keeping in research on teaching planning, are discussed. Field studies are reported in which teachers were asked to record their planning deliberations and the accompanying thoughts in a personal journal. While it became apparent that…

Stresses the importance of preserving information for use by future administrators. Suggests that administrators preserve important documents from the files, keep newspaper clippings of important university events and a copy of the annual report to the President. (HMV)

While politicians argue about standards and administrators carry on cutting, life inside school carries on. The staff at South View County Junior School in Basingstoke have been looking at their everyday experience by keeping a record of just one of their working weeks. (Editor)

Broad objectives and a Five-Year Plan are given for the Developmental Mathematics Curriculum Committee of the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges. (MN)

A teacher describes how a classroom diary, part of a daily classroom routine, was created through class members sharing their experiences with each other. The diary also served as a teaching tool in such areas as language arts and handwriting. (CB)

Recommends use of entries from the information retrieval diary of Ted Crump, expert technical translator at the National Institute of Health, in the construction of computer models showing how expert translators solve problems of ambiguity in language. Expert and inexpert translation systems, eponyms, abbreviations, and alphabetic solutions are…

The first year of a college presidency is described by Arthur Levine, the president of Bradford College. His proposal for a "practical liberal arts education plan" is described and his efforts to implement it are discussed. (MLW)

Defines different types of student journals and assesses them worth an allocation of class time based on research and samples of student work. (CRH)

Diachronic and comparative study of the Pequot language from sources compiled by Ezra Stiles in 1762 and Frank G. Speck in 1928; preliminary version of this article presented at the 11th Conference on American Indian Languages, December 2, 1972, Toronto, Canada. (RS)

Actual records of a chemical engineering major present a number of interviews held with assorted companies. His comments suggest that while initially he sought status, location and challenge, he became more interested in the personal touch," and selected his employer on that basis. (CJ)

Describes a dialogue-journal writing technique that requires a nonevaluative response from the teacher and is based on students' firsthand experiences. Several examples are provided. (RH)

Analyzed communication diaries of 101 managers of Australian organizations. Results confirm prior research and add to the understanding of the relationship between 7 key demographic variables and 17 communication characteristics. Findings have implications for the way managers are trained and use their time. (PD)