Writing Skills
DIARY WRITING
PURPOSE
• Diary is a kind of personal
document.
• It records an individual’s account of
a day of his/her day.
Format
•Top Left – Date, Day and Time
•Tense most frequently used –
Simple Past, Present Perfect and
Future
•First Person Application
Steps
• Begin the entry with general sentence
describing the day or momentary feelings.
• In the body, you may discuss an event, your
feelings towards it. How it is likely to affect your
future.
• Conclude with final remark and future course of
action.
Diary Entry (Solved Examples)
Q.1 You are Naresh. You happened to go to Agra in a crowded bus on a hot
summer day. Record your experience in the form of a diary entry.
12-07-24
Thursday
05:30 pm
Dear Diary,
Today I had the bitterest experience of my life. I never had such an awful experience in
my life before. I had gone to Agra for an urgent work. There were very few buses plying
today as most of them had been put on election duty. I waited for two hours at the bus
stop to get into the bus. It was much crowded. I somehow managed to get some space
for myself. It was really difficult to breathe. Everyone was sweating. People were pushing
each other. After journey of two hours, I came out of the bus and took a sigh of relief.
I’ll never forget this journey in my life.
Naresh
Example 2
You are a member of a tem of students campaigning against the spread
of smoking in your city. Make a diary entry describing your participation
and success achieved in your mission.
Date:
Day:
Place:
Campaigning against smoking
Dear Diary,
Today I got a chance to be a part of a volunteer group, We campaigned
against smoke and spread awareness among the residents.
I had made two posters, one on ‘Smoking Kills’ and the other on ‘Trees
are our savior as they clean the air’.
Today , air pollution is one of the biggest health hazard and the smoke
from industries and vehicles is a major contribution in its increment.
Thus we tried our best to reach the maximum number of people.
We also distributed face masks