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diaries and the practice of journaling (dated vs. undated, inner focused
vs. outer focused, sporadic entries vs. regular entries, etc.). While
traditionalist preferred the use of the term diary, the current preference
(based on book and article titles) is to use the word "journal." The phrase
"journaling" is often used to describe such hobby writing, similar to the
term "scrapbooking."
Some diarists think of their diaries as a special friend, even going so far
as to name them. For example, Anne Frank called her diary "Kitty". There
is a strong psychological effect of having an audience for one's self-
expression, a personal space, or a "listener," even if this is the book one
writes in, only read by oneself. Friedrich Kellner, a justice inspector in the
Third Reich, thought of his diary as a weapon for any future fight against
tyrants and terrorism, and he fittingly called his book "Mein Widerstand" -
"My Opposition."
More than 16,000 diaries have been published since book publishing
began. See List of diarists.
Additionally, the diary is a popular form for works of fiction. See List of
fictional diaries.
History
The word diary comes from the Latin diarium ("daily allowance", from dies,
"day", more often in the plural form diaria). The word journal comes from
the same root (diurnus, "of the day") through Old French jurnal (modern
French for day is jour).
The oldest extant diaries come from East Asian cultures, pillowbooks of
Japanese court ladies and Asian travel journals being some of the oldest
surviving specimens of this genre of writing. The 9th century scholar Li
Ao, for example, kept a diary of his journey through southern China.
Sales of "page a day" diaries go back hundreds of years (Letts, for
example, is over 200 years old). At first, most of these books were used
as ledgers, or business books. Samuel Pepys is the earliest diarist that is
well known today, although he had contemporaries who were also
keeping diaries. (John Evelyn for one.) Pepys also was apparently at a
turning point in diary history, for he took it beyond mere business
transaction notation, into the realm of the personal.
Until, it seems, around the turn of the 20th century, with greater literacy
and industrialization throughout the globe, particularly the Western
world, diary writing was mostly limited to the members of the higher
social classes. In the West, at least, a high proportion of historical and
literary figures from the Renaissance to the 20th century seem to have
kept a diary. (see List of diarists)
Tristine Rainer's 1978 The New Diary expanded awareness of diary-
keeping as a literary genre, particularly among feminists. Acknowledging
key figures in the resurgence of diary writing such as Carl Jung, Marion
Milner, Ira Progoff and Anaïs Nin, she identified techniques that people
use either spontaneously or have employed in their daily writing to
explore themselves and their experience of the world. Rainer's idea, as
expressed in the title, is that a diary is much more than a dry record of
weather or daily events--it allows the writer to communicate deep and
often spiritual realizations. Social historians were particularly interested in
this, as it expanded greatly the number of historical texts available to
them.
In the United States during the 1990's various K-12 educators used a
variety of journals across subject areas to encourage and document
student progress, including pre-literate picture journals and "math
journals" to aid in developing mathematical concepts in an individualized
way, in accordance with Lev Vygotsky's concepts of instructional
scaffolding. Another popular adaptation of the diary is the personal use
of time management tools such as the Filofax or Franklin Planner.
Appeal
One of the most tempting things about diaries is that writing one is
accessible to anyone with pen and paper. The only educational
prerequisite is literacy. Proper spelling or grammar are not required; some
of the most beautifully and powerfully-written published diaries were kept
by persons who had neither. Some people describe feeling driven to keep
a diary, often as a way to put their existence into perspective or to
record witnessed or experienced injustice.
The word "diary" has fallen into disrepute in recent decades. The modern
Western stereotype of a diary is a record kept by teenage girls, usually
concerning such matters as school, parents, and immature attempts at
romantic liaisons. For many years, the only inexpensive diaries on the
market featured pastel covers with naively romantic cover art and flimsy
locks and keys, thus perpetuating this illusion. However, this type of
diary and the accompanying cultural associations did not exist until the
1940s. As of 2006, many people, particularly women, prefer the word
"journal" so as to avoid this stereotype and to expand the diary's use
beyond a mere catalog of events.
Keeping a record of one's daily life provides the diarist with a tool with
which to "time travel" to times gone by, providing a snapshot of past
thoughts, feelings, and life events. In this case, the diary or journal can
be used not only as a tool to fuel nostalgia, but also as a cure for
nostalgia; if one feels nostalgic for certain times gone by, then he or she
may use the journal to see his or her perspective of those times as they
were being experienced, perhaps casting light upon negative features
that the diarist had previously overlooked due to idealism.
Healing
See also: List of writing techniques and List of books on diaries and
journals
In the 1960s Ira Progoff pioneered the use of diaries in psychotherapy,
publishing on his Intensive Journal Method in 1975. Rainer and Progoff's
work helped to increase the use of journals in personal or psychotherapy,
and a small library of books on various journal techniques, into the
present day. The Intensive Journal Method is the most famous, but there
are dozens, mostly building on techniques mentioned or described by
Progoff and Rainer. Many of these books focus on using the journal or
diary for "self-awareness", "finding your true self", and healing from any
number of personal troubles, including physical illness and trauma).
Popular among creative writers, several of these entered into the formal
teaching of composition as "prewriting" techniques or adapted for
notetaking.
Internet diaries
Main article: Online diary
As Internet access became commonly available, people adopted it as yet
another medium with which to chronicle their lives, with the added
dimension of having an audience (negating, to some, the very definition
of diary). Apart from the odd tangent on USENET and posts to
proprietary forums on the earliest Internet service providers, the first
online diary is believed to be that of Carolyn Burke, which debuted on the
web in January 1995. The number of people publishing web journals grew
quickly; but, for some time, the practice was limited to people who had
both Internet access and a familiarity with HTML. Several diverse
communities of web diarists eventually developed.
Blogs
Web-based services soon appeared to streamline and automate online
publishing. But the great explosion in personal storytelling came with the
emergence of weblogs, also known as blogs. While the format was first
focused on external links and topical commentary, widespread weblog
tools were quickly used to create web journals—though as of short,
spontaneous entries rather than crafted essays. The weblog community
was more naturally comfortable with networking and linking, creating a
thriving online community. As had been the case in the web-diarist
community, there were cliques and protests over a supposed A-list of
authors. Like online journals, "personal weblogs" are frequently maligned
in the broader weblog community as a form of "navel gazing".
Some weblog services are small and offer simply a way to publish one's
writing, while others have become true communities offering
opportunities for feedback and communication with fellow diarists.
A study of blogging in the United States, released by the Pew Internet &
American Life Project in July 2006, found that 12 million adults (8% of U.
S. Internet users; 4% of the U.S. population) kept blogs, while 57 million
adults (39% of Internet users) read blogs. Thirty-seven percent of
bloggers used blogs as personal journals, but 50% said their major
reason for blogging was to record their personal experience; 54% were
under age 30; men and women used blogs equally; 60% were white,
while 74% of all American users of the Internet were white.[1]
While many of users of these online communities are presumed to be
teenage girls and young people (who perhaps see them as a way to keep
their inner thoughts secret from their families while expressing and
exploring their feelings and the experience of growing up), there is a fair
amount of evidence that the stereotype is fading with the growing
prevalence of journals and weblogs on the Internet.
Travel journals
Main article: Travel journal
A travel journal, or road journal, is an initialliy blank book carried by a
traveler for the purpose of documenting a journey. Clippings, tokens, or
tickets may be included as they are collected. The journal may also
include notes written by acquaintances. Some journals feature hand-
drawn illustrations, or even watercolors, of friends and places.
Workout journals
A workout journal, or exercise tracker, is a journal were one registers
what kind of workouts one has done. One usually also writes down the
length of workout and writes a comment about the workout. Workout
journals can also be online; one might be able to share experiences and
find new workout partners.
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