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Diary Writing Checklist

This diary writing checklist provides guidance on including key details when writing a diary entry such as including the date, writing in past tense from your perspective using first person pronouns, describing the order and location of important events, and discussing feelings. The checklist reminds writers to place themselves in the experience by writing as if they were present and use time-linking words to flow between what happened next.

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Diary Writing Checklist

This diary writing checklist provides guidance on including key details when writing a diary entry such as including the date, writing in past tense from your perspective using first person pronouns, describing the order and location of important events, and discussing feelings. The checklist reminds writers to place themselves in the experience by writing as if they were present and use time-linking words to flow between what happened next.

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John Barrett Lee
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Diary Writing Checklist

Did I…

include the date and/or time the diary was written?

write in past tense?

use the words ‘I’, ‘my’, ‘we’, and ‘our’?

write as if I was there?

write about the most important events in the order they happened?

describe my feelings?

use time linking words, e.g. ‘next’, ‘first’, ‘then’?

talk about where events happened?

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