journals

Personal written accounts

Journals are bound books with blank pages for writing personal thoughts, observations, or records.

A journal may be a daily log of events or a reflective diary.

The word also covers periodicals publishing scholarly or professional articles: medical journals, academic journals.

To journal is to keep such a record: She journals every morning before work.

diary

entries

Items logged or submitted

confessions · secrets · feelings · emotions · introspection · musings · candid · heartfelt · daily · handwritten

academic

peer-reviewed

Evaluated by field experts

citation · abstract · manuscript · thesis · dissertation · methodology · findings · results · volume · issue

archive

repository

Place for storing things

library · database · index · catalog · annals · register · inventory · preservation · digitized · bound

newspaper

gazette

Official published journal

dispatch · bulletin · press · newsroom · reporter · correspondent · headline · coverage · column · editorial

memoir

autobiography

Self-penned life narrative

experiences · memories · narrative · confessional · revelations · self-discovery · testimony · vignettes · legacy · published

Categories
Opposites
publication format

journalsmonographs

Scholarly single-topic publications

books · novels · encyclopedias · anthologies · collected works

content type

journalsnovels

Extended prose fiction

fiction · short stories · fantasy · poetry · creative writing

privacy/audience

journalsbroadcasts

Transmissions for public reception

public announcements · public records · published works · newspapers · press releases

Phrases
Family

journal, journalist, journalism, journaling, journalists, journaled, journalistic, journalese, journalled

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G