Each Wednesday, I usually write a post from my dissertation.

What is atypical for individual scrapbookers is often atypical for scrapbookers as a whole. Respondents showed me atypical methods, styles, and elements.

Respondents almost always include photographs and use page protectors over their scrapbook pages. One respondent glues her scrapbook pages to the outside of the page protectors instead of slipping the pages inside the page protectors and another respondent never uses page protectors.

Atypical journaling might be a print out of an email or in the scrapbooker’s own handwriting—though most scrapbookers see value in using one’s own handwriting, many rarely actually use their own handwriting. Scrapbookers typically only include pages they make themselves in their scrapbooks. Some respondents only do two-page layouts, though most do a combination of one and two-page layouts.

There is no standard number of photographs per page among scrapbooks but individual scrapbookers typically use approximately the same number of photographs on each page. Scrapbookers either use only one or two photographs or regularly use several (four or five) photographs on each page.

Photographs are usually of clothed people and include their faces. Photographs of body parts or nudity[1]—especially adult nudity—are rare. Most often scrapbookers include photographs of people rather than of things (e.g., buildings or nature). Scrapbookers rarely make pages explicitly about themselves or write introspectively on pages about themselves or others.