2 PSYCHOLOGISTS EXPERIENCES WITH JOURNALS

Journals can be powerful teaching tools. However, as we learned during our first few years of using them, journals should not be blindly imported into psychology classes from composition classes. Instead, modifications should be made to accommodate the differences between the psychology professor's goals and the composition teacher's goals. After consulting the psychological literature and 3 years of tinkering, we found two modifications that seem to encourage students to think critically about the facts and ideas presented in psychology classes. © 1990, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.