Dailyit is a text genre. Its function is to record facts, reflections or notes related to a person's daily life, whether in the intimate or professional sphere. It needs to show a date and can also have a title and signature. Some types of diary are: intimate, travel, training, research, etc.
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Topics of this article
- 1 - Summary about diary
- 2 - What is a diary?
- 3 - What are the characteristics and structure of the diary?
- 4 - What are the types of diary?
- 5 - How to keep a diary?
- 6 - Example of a diary
summary about diary
The diary is a textual genre that exists to record everyday events.
The diary presents the date, vocative, development and signature.
The diary can be intimate, travel, philosophical, class, on board, etc.
Notebook, agenda and digital file are supports for the construction of a diary.
What is diary?
The diary is a textual genre what has the function of recording facts that occurred in the day to day of its author. Therefore, it has a personal character, since it shows the perspective of who writes it. At first, the only reader of this type of text is its own author, given its private and intimate nature.
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What are the characteristics and structure of the diary?
The theme of a diary is wide and varies according to the experience of each author.. Anyway, the diary brings the writer's intimacy, reveals his thoughts, emotions and secrets. The author or the author of the diary can only express himself, but he can also elect a fictitious interlocutor with whom to dialogue.
Thus, it is common for vocatives such as “my dear diary” or even a fictitious name, male or female. By choosing an interlocutor for the text, the tone of intimacy is accentuated, as the diary is personified. Moreover, the support for this text can be either a notebook or a digital file.
The language of the diary refers to an informal context, but it can be both colloquial and cultured, it will depend on each author or author.
Finally, the daily textual genre presents the following structure:
date;
vocative (optional);
report, thoughts, reflections and/or notes;
signature (optional).
What are the types of diary?
There are many types of journals, the main ones being:
intimate diary: about the intimate life of the author.
Trip diary: about facts that occurred on a trip.
Philosophical diary: philosophical content.
Training diary: records the experiences of a student during his or her training process.
Class diary: where the teacher records the routine in the classroom.
research diary: shows the everyday investigative experiences of a researcher.
Logbook: notes from the pilot or commander of a given vehicle about the trip taken.
See too: What are the types of chronicle?
How to make a diary?
The diary it can be written in a notebook or agenda, but it can also exist virtually, that is, in a computer file. With one of these supports in hand, you can start your diary. In him, you can record the events and reflections of each day. It is very important that don't forget to put the date, so that your record has not only a personal character, but also a historical one.
sample diary
A famous diary of Brazilian literature is Eviction room: diary of a slum dweller, from the writer Carolina Maria de Jesus. It was first published in 1960 and contains records like this:
JULY 23 ...Turned on the radio to hear the drama. I made lunch and went to bed. I slept an hour and a half. I didn't even hear the end of the play. But, I already knew the play. I started keeping my diary. From time to time I stopped to scold my children. There was a knock at the door. I told João José to open it and ask him to enter. It was Mr John. He asked me where to find potato leaves for his daughter to brush a tooth. I said that in Portuguese it was possible to find. He wanted to know what I wrote. I said be my diary.
— I've never seen a black woman like books as much as you.
Everyone has an ideal. Mine is to like to read. Seu João gave fifty cents to each boy. When he met me I had only two boys.
No one has bothered me. Thank God.
This excerpt from the diary refers to the year 1955. The spelling deviations are original, as that was how the author wrote. And the colloquial character of his language is one of the main characteristics of this work.
By Warley Souza
Portuguese teacher
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
SOUZA, Warley. "Daily"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/redacao/diario.htm. Accessed March 31, 2023.
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