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.