PLEASE READ THE 2 PDF AND WRITE A READING RESPONSE 550 WORDS
A reading response asks you to examine, explain and reflect on your personal reactions to the seminar reading. Your response is not an opinion piece and should not simply summarize content, but rather are brief reflective educational analyses that question your readings critically. As you do this over and over, you will develop stronger critical reading and writing skills and approach educational sources with greater awareness.
Choose one (or more) core idea(s) from the assigned seminar texts on the above issue/topic that were important to you. It may seem like the most central idea, or the one that you find problematic.
Choose a key quote or quotes from the readings that illustrate this idea for you and explain why.
Discuss how each of the readings connects to this idea. Do the authors say similar or different things? How do they provide different insights on it?
You can use any external material to support your points in your response; however, make sure that your primary focus is the idea(s) from the assigned readings related to the above issue/topic.
Give your paper a catchy/creative title, i.e. not “Reading response.”
Evaluation
The assessment of the Reading responses/reflections will be based on two main areas.
Reflection: your ability to meaningfully reflect and examine your own position, relationships, feelings, and responses to the reading(s)
Engagement with readings: Your ability to articulate and critique core ideas from the readings as well as make connections and comparisons to other readings/materials.
To prepare for a strong Reading Response/Reflection, make notes on:
Key points made by the author(s): these can be large, overall concepts (once you have read the article/chapter as a whole), or more specific ones
Points that stand out for you, personally. Explain why they stand out for you.
Connections and key themes you see between the readings. It’s valuable higher-level thinking to see how things are connected; you still want to be specific to what each writer is saying in their own right, however.
