Chapter 2. Literature and Writing

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Uploading a group of documents and sharing them using the Secret URL

• A "Thought a Day" journal

• A Page of writing samples

• A poetry page with a faux woodblock print created using GIMP

• Creating a poetry chapbook

• Thesis/Research planning

• Language acquisition journal

• A daily gazette

Introduction

The saying goes "You can't tell a book by its cover" but there's a lot to be said about the way "packaging" affects perception. In this chapter, we will explore several creative ways for packaging your writing. Many of the recipes use journals in ways you might not expect.

Mahara allows the creation of an unlimited number of journals, and journals can be used for a variety of purposes. The advantage of using a journal for reflections on artifacts, and for simply creating artifacts of writing, is the ability to use and reuse a single post, a group of posts, or an entire journal, for many different types of Pages. And, if you delete the Pages, your...