READING RESPONSE ASSIGNMENT:
Your reading responses must be approximately 500-800 words and critically engage with all of the readings for that class, as well as the theme of the week, and offer your own personal reflections and critiques. Rather than summarizing the text, you are asked to draw out the author or authors’ main arguments and offer points of comparison, analysis and critique.
In writing a response you must assume the reader has already read the text. Thus, do NOT summarize the contents of the text. While you may briefly outline the author’s main argument, most of your response should offer your own critical and analytical reflections.
Some questions you may pose in your response:
-How do the texts for this week relate to one another and to the overall theme of the week? What is each author’s position in relation to the theme?
-What are the different theoretical frameworks that the texts are relying on. Do they make use of these theories in an effective and convincing manner?
-What is your INFORMED critique of the text (don’t tell me you “like the writing style”)?
