Responses

Responses are due in my UMCP inbox every Wednesday at 9 AM ET. You are responsible for any glitches in email delivery. If you want to make sure you get your response in on time regardless of technology issues, submit them early and request that I notify you of receipt.


Guidelines
  • Read actively.
    • Always read with a pen and pad.
    • Ask questions.
    • Challenge the author
    • This makes it a lot easier to write responses. If you're taking notes, most of what you need to write is already written!
  • Evaluate readings and lectures from the past week.
    • Review one lecture, one chapter from Mingst & Arreguin-Toft, and one piece from Mingst & Snyder. Please choose the items to review from the same subject.
    • Share questions and challenges you developed in your reading notes.
    • Connect to other readings, lectures, and real-world issues.
    • Share questions and challenges that may arise in your lecture notes.
    • Connect to lectures, text and readings to real-world issues.
  • You should be able to do this in two-to-three pages, give or take.
  • Write in a word processor first and save it.
  • Email the file or the plain text to the professor.

The rubric explains how you can earn various grades for different levels of response.