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A work log is a report that summarizes how an employee spent his time on the job.

Through a daily work log, an employee can create a mental picture of what comprises his day and how he uses his time. It is also helpful in understanding how productive an employee is during a particular period of the workday.

For example, if an employee is more energetic and driven in the morning, he may work on his most significant tasks during this period and schedule his less demanding tasks during the afternoon such as responding to emails or returning calls.

When the employee is able to understand how he uses his time at work, he is also able to plan his day to make it more productive.

Daily work logs can also serve as a basis for determining non-core activities that use most of the employee’s time but does not help him reach his performance objectives and targets. If they can see how much time they spend on these activities, they should be able to do something to reduce if not to eliminate them altogether.

Aside from that, maintaining a daily work log is the first step towards developing a systematic way of handling tasks, thus ensuring an orderly work process.

Here are some ways on how to come up with a daily work log and how to use it to help improve the employee’s work:

• A daily work log should be a document which can be accessed easily and readily by the employee should he need to record his activity. The process of recording details should be straightforward.
• Aside from the daily activities, it should also contain information on important decisions made, unusual events such as work stoppage and emergencies, delivery of items, visitors, and other matters that the employee may deem relevant to look back on in the future.
• Keeping a daily work log should not only be for documentation purposes. The employee should also review it periodically to see how much he has accomplished in a given period, what tasks or projects are close to completion, and which ones need more of his attention and time. It can also motivate him to see that things are going just as planned and that he was able to accomplish all tasks. This will help him gauge his time management skills and increase his productivity.
• A plan for the next day may also go in the daily work log. As such, it serves two purposes—as a to-do list that the employee plans to accomplish and a work log after the task is complete.

Using a daily work log is a helpful productivity tool to track an employee’s activities and his accomplishments during the day. It also serves as a documentation of all important things to remember which he may otherwise forget. It also helps ensure that a pending task is seen and that the employee did not miss any assignments.

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The Case for Log Books: An Assignment Designed to Promote Student Reflection on Academic Writing

For the last two years, I have worked as a writing coach in one of the largest introductory courses offered by the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The course is Introduction to International Relations , a BA level course that draws 75-140 students each term. While some of these students have taken university courses before, most have not. My job is to provide each of my students with the support they need to develop university-level writing skills. This job is daunting since every student enrols with different knowledge and expectations both what good writing entails and how it is accomplished.

To make the situation more challenging, students are not required to complete either a writing or a study skills course when they enter university, leaving the lessons they gleaned in secondary school as their only point of reference. Add international students and their diverse expectations and skills into the mix, and you have a recipe for writing disaster. While there is no clear and effective approach to providing these students with the skills and support they need to develop their academic writing, there is one activity that comes close: log books. In this post, I describe this activity and explain how I use it to help each of my students become better academic writers.

Screenshot 1: Log book directions

Log book assignment directions are straightforward. It requires students to reflect on their strengths, weaknesses, and needs as academic writers by formulating a question and sending that question to me, their writing coach, via our online learning platform. Depending on the size of the class, the students do this either twice or three times during the term with due dates following essay submissions. This submission schedule means that students turn in an essay and then have 1-2 days to think about what they did well, what they need to improve, and the skills they need to develop in order to produce an even better essay the next time around. This submission schedule enables students to reflect on their writing in relation to the essay they just submitted. While I ask them not to cut and paste excerpts from their essays into their log books, I do encourage students to use their most recently submitted essay as the foundation for their reflections.

Screenshot 2: Example student entry

Students are free to ask anything related to academic writing in their log books. Despite the diversity of their writing skills, student questions tend to speak to five common writing dilemmas: 1) time management , 2) performance anxiety, 3) academic language and conventions, 4) referencing, and 5) analysis. Since this is a pass/fail assignment, I don’t evaluate the content of what the students write. Instead, I do my best to listen to their writing struggles , validate their concerns, assure them that many academic writers experience similar challenges, and point them towards relevant resources.

Table 1: Examples of student questions

Many university teachers have asked me how I find the time to respond to hundreds of log book entries every term. While I freely admit that it is time-consuming, I also point out that since students tend to ask the same questions, it takes a lot less time and energy than most teachers anticipate. Over the last two years, I have developed a repertoire of responses that I use and alter in response to each student’s writing challenges. These standard answers allow me to provide similar advice to similar questions but also gives me the time to really listen to and address each student’s individual needs. This combination of standard responses altered to accommodate each student means that it typically takes me only 5 to 10 minutes to read and respond to each log book entry. While this accumulates into a lot of time every term, the students remind me that it was time well spent. Their enthusiastic reviews of the assignment continuously help me see that my time commitment is insignificant when compared to the immense learning that most students experience because of the assignment.

Table 2: Example response

Ultimately, the log book assignment has taught me the importance of reflection — an invaluable pedagogical tool that few university teachers actively employ in their courses. Reflection is an excellent opportunity for students to take stock of what they know and what they don’t, and to look for the resources they need to develop their writing skills further. Most importantly, it is a personal learning process that helps me address the individual and varied learning needs of my students. Even if this is a monumental task, it is my job, and log books are how I do it.

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Elizabeth Olsson  is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She previously worked as a classroom teacher in the United States, Japan, Sweden, and the Occupied West Bank. Elizabeth’s research interests include constructive classroom conflict and the school’s democratic mission . Check out more of her posts on teaching and learning in higher education at  https://www.blogalstudies.com/ , including ‘Reflections on academic writing from a writing coach’ , ‘We need to talk about academic language’ , and a post co-written by Maastricht University alumna, Hortense Jongen, ‘Short, daily writing sessions with a twist: Finding the time, energy, and creativity to write’ .

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A logbook is a written account of the hours you work while driving a truck, bus, or ferry. In general, each logbook is set up with the same basic information, and they provide a record of your work activity. Include details such as your name, date, company address, hours on duty, hours sleeping, and hours driving. Once you know the basics, completing a log book is a snap, whether using a paper book or an electronic version.

Completing the Daily Logs

• The information recorded with the electronic system is the same as with the paper book, but it is easier to provide more precise information with the electronic version.
• The electronic system often uses a website or GPS application where you can easily keep track of your shift information.
• Some countries account for a “phased-in” period, where the electronic system is slowly introduced and integrated.

• If you mainly work from a different terminal than the main location, write out the correct address in the “Home terminal address” box.
• When you do this, spell out city names completely, rather than listing abbreviations. Abbreviate the states to save room if you’d like.
• You can also list your employee ID number if listed on your time log.

• For instance, write “650” for total distance and “85/44” for the truck number.
• If you have a shipping documents number include that in the appropriate box as well.

• For example, if you drove from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, draw a line through these 4 hours.

• If your total hours are less than 24, you counted your hours incorrectly. Adjust the timing per task until you have 24 total hours on your log.

• For example, write “Sacramento, CA to Portland, OR.”

• For example, indicate breakdowns and accidents by the time and location it took place. Write out the words “breakdown” or “accident” rather than abbreviating it, as well as the city name. You can abbreviate the states.
• You can also leave a note recording the nearest milepost to give your employers more information about your locations.

Submitting the Log Book

• For example, many companies have you submit your logs each week.

• For example, you may have missed shipping documentation or perhaps your driving hours do not add up correctly.

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• Purchase a paper log book at most truck stops. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 4
• Be sure your numbers are neat and legible. If they aren’t your employer will return your log book for you to redo. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 1

• If you violate your company’s rules regarding logbooks, you can get a penalty of $1,000-10,000 (£778.42-7784.25), depending on the circumstances. As a result, maintaining your log is very important to ensure you don’t get fined. Thanks Helpful 2 Not Helpful 0

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By the end of this section, you will be able to:

• Employ the methods and technologies commonly used for research and communication within various fields.
• Practice and apply strategies such as interpretation, synthesis, response, and critique to compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with those from appropriate sources.
• Analyze and make informed decisions about intellectual property based on the concepts that motivate them.
• Apply citation conventions systematically.

As you conduct research, you will work with a range of “texts” in various forms, including sources and documents from online databases as well as images, audio, and video files from the Internet. You may also work with archival materials and with transcribed and analyzed primary data. Additionally, you will be taking notes and recording quotations from secondary sources as you find materials that shape your understanding of your topic and, at the same time, provide you with facts and perspectives. You also may download articles as PDFs that you then annotate. Like many other students, you may find it challenging to keep so much material organized, accessible, and easy to work with while you write a major research paper. As it does for many of those students, a research log for your ideas and sources will help you keep track of the scope, purpose, and possibilities of any research project.

A research log is essentially a journal in which you collect information, ask questions, and monitor the results. Even if you are completing the annotated bibliography for Writing Process: Informing and Analyzing , keeping a research log is an effective organizational tool. Like Lily Tran’s research log entry, most entries have three parts: a part for notes on secondary sources, a part for connections to the thesis or main points, and a part for your own notes or questions. Record source notes by date, and allow room to add cross-references to other entries.

Summary of Assignment: Research Log

Your assignment is to create a research log similar to the student model. You will use it for the argumentative research project assigned in Writing Process: Integrating Research to record all secondary source information: your notes, complete publication data, relation to thesis, and other information as indicated in the right-hand column of the sample entry.

Another Lens. A somewhat different approach to maintaining a research log is to customize it to your needs or preferences. You can apply shading or color coding to headers, rows, and/or columns in the three-column format (for colors and shading). Or you can add columns to accommodate more information, analysis, synthesis, or commentary, formatting them as you wish. Consider adding a column for questions only or one for connections to other sources. Finally, consider a different visual format , such as one without columns. Another possibility is to record some of your comments and questions so that you have an aural rather than a written record of these.

Writing Center

At this point, or at any other point during the research and writing process, you may find that your school’s writing center can provide extensive assistance. If you are unfamiliar with the writing center, now is a good time to pay your first visit. Writing centers provide free peer tutoring for all types and phases of writing. Discussing your research with a trained writing center tutor can help you clarify, analyze, and connect ideas as well as provide feedback on works in progress.

Quick Launch: Beginning Questions

You may begin your research log with some open pages in which you freewrite, exploring answers to the following questions. Although you generally would do this at the beginning, it is a process to which you likely will return as you find more information about your topic and as your focus changes, as it may during the course of your research.

• What information have I found so far?
• What do I still need to find?
• Where am I most likely to find it?

These are beginning questions. Like Lily Tran, however, you will come across general questions or issues that a quick note or freewrite may help you resolve. The key to this section is to revisit it regularly. Written answers to these and other self-generated questions in your log clarify your tasks as you go along, helping you articulate ideas and examine supporting evidence critically. As you move further into the process, consider answering the following questions in your freewrite:

• What evidence looks as though it best supports my thesis?
• What evidence challenges my working thesis?
• How is my thesis changing from where it started?

Creating the Research Log

As you gather source material for your argumentative research paper, keep in mind that the research is intended to support original thinking. That is, you are not writing an informational report in which you simply supply facts to readers. Instead, you are writing to support a thesis that shows original thinking, and you are collecting and incorporating research into your paper to support that thinking. Therefore, a research log, whether digital or handwritten, is a great way to keep track of your thinking as well as your notes and bibliographic information.

In the model below, Lily Tran records the correct MLA bibliographic citation for the source. Then, she records a note and includes the in-text citation here to avoid having to retrieve this information later. Perhaps most important, Tran records why she noted this information—how it supports her thesis: The human race must turn to sustainable food systems that provide healthy diets with minimal environmental impact, starting now . Finally, she makes a note to herself about an additional visual to include in the final paper to reinforce the point regarding the current pressure on food systems. And she connects the information to other information she finds, thus cross-referencing and establishing a possible synthesis. Use a format similar to that in Table 13.4 to begin your own research log.

Types of Research Notes

Taking good notes will make the research process easier by enabling you to locate and remember sources and use them effectively. While some research projects requiring only a few sources may seem easily tracked, research projects requiring more than a few sources are more effectively managed when you take good bibliographic and informational notes. As you gather evidence for your argumentative research paper, follow the descriptions and the electronic model to record your notes. You can combine these with your research log, or you can use the research log for secondary sources and your own note-taking system for primary sources if a division of this kind is helpful. Either way, be sure to include all necessary information.

Bibliographic Notes

These identify the source you are using. When you locate a useful source, record the information necessary to find that source again. It is important to do this as you find each source, even before taking notes from it. If you create bibliographic notes as you go along, then you can easily arrange them in alphabetical order later to prepare the reference list required at the end of formal academic papers. If your instructor requires you to use MLA formatting for your essay, be sure to record the following information:

• Title of source
• Title of container (larger work in which source is included)
• Other contributors
• Publication date

When using MLA style with online sources, also record the following information:

• Date of original publication
• Date of access
• DOI (A DOI, or digital object identifier, is a series of digits and letters that leads to the location of an online source. Articles in journals are often assigned DOIs to ensure that the source can be located, even if the URL changes. If your source is listed with a DOI, use that instead of a URL.)

It is important to understand which documentation style your instructor will require you to use. Check the Handbook for MLA Documentation and Format and APA Documentation and Format styles . In addition, you can check the style guide information provided by the Purdue Online Writing Lab .

Informational Notes

These notes record the relevant information found in your sources. When writing your essay, you will work from these notes, so be sure they contain all the information you need from every source you intend to use. Also try to focus your notes on your research question so that their relevance is clear when you read them later. To avoid confusion, work with separate entries for each piece of information recorded. At the top of each entry, identify the source through brief bibliographic identification (author and title), and note the page numbers on which the information appears. Also helpful is to add personal notes, including ideas for possible use of the information or cross-references to other information. As noted in Writing Process: Integrating Research , you will be using a variety of formats when borrowing from sources. Below is a quick review of these formats in terms of note-taking processes. By clarifying whether you are quoting directly, paraphrasing, or summarizing during these stages, you can record information accurately and thus take steps to avoid plagiarism.

Direct Quotations, Paraphrases, and Summaries

A direct quotation is an exact duplication of the author’s words as they appear in the original source. In your notes, put quotation marks around direct quotations so that you remember these words are the author’s, not yours. One advantage of copying exact quotations is that it allows you to decide later whether to include a quotation, paraphrase, or summary. ln general, though, use direct quotations only when the author’s words are particularly lively or persuasive.

A paraphrase is a restatement of the author’s words in your own words. Paraphrase to simplify or clarify the original author’s point. In your notes, use paraphrases when you need to record details but not exact words.

A summary is a brief condensation or distillation of the main point and most important details of the original source. Write a summary in your own words, with facts and ideas accurately represented. A summary is useful when specific details in the source are unimportant or irrelevant to your research question. You may find you can summarize several paragraphs or even an entire article or chapter in just a few sentences without losing useful information. It is a good idea to note when your entry contains a summary to remind you later that it omits detailed information. See Writing Process Integrating Research for more detailed information and examples of quotations, paraphrases, and summaries and when to use them.

Other Systems for Organizing Research Logs and Digital Note-Taking

Students often become frustrated and at times overwhelmed by the quantity of materials to be managed in the research process. If this is your first time working with both primary and secondary sources, finding ways to keep all of the information in one place and well organized is essential.

Because gathering primary evidence may be a relatively new practice, this section is designed to help you navigate the process. As mentioned earlier, information gathered in fieldwork is not cataloged, organized, indexed, or shelved for your convenience. Obtaining it requires diligence, energy, and planning. Online resources can assist you with keeping a research log. Your college library may have subscriptions to tools such as Todoist or EndNote. Consult with a librarian to find out whether you have access to any of these. If not, use something like the template shown in Figure 13.8 , or another like it, as a template for creating your own research notes and organizational tool. You will need to have a record of all field research data as well as the research log for all secondary sources.

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