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Reading ResponsesPart of your graded work for the course includes an in-class reading response. This is a brief document intended to stimulate and guide class discussion of one assigned text. Please limit yourself to a single page. Make enough copies for the instructor and all class members. Be prepared to distribute your response at the beginning of class on the night your assigned text is discussed. There are several ways to approach this task. You may write a series of questions (no more than five) that you feel the class ought to consider. Or you could briefly summarize (in a paragraph or two) any thinking you have about the reading. Or you could quote an excerpt from the reading and raise particular questions about it. Whatever you choose, your response should represent a thoughtful engagement with the text, and it should provide the basis for productive discussion. An example of a good discussion question on Bush's "As We May Think:" "Vannevar Bush envisions an information technology for use by scientists and academic researchers. The World Wide Web started out to do the same thing, but it is now used by all sorts of people in diverse walks of life. What would Bush think of the Web?" An example of a poor question on the same text: "What did Bush think about information technology?" |
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