Principles of Reading Responses

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 14:27

Your instructor may require you to respond to course readings with blog posts. Each reading response should be specifically focused on the reading and the prompt provided on the calendar, clearly indicate that you have read and thought seriously about the reading, and be sufficiently developed. Your instructor may set a word-limit minimum for these responses. Make sure to tag your blog post with the appropriate "Reading Response" week tag by selecting it from the "Reading Response" drop-down box when you submit your blog post.

In composing your reading response you should:

  • Be sure to focus your response on the subject of the prompt.
  • Link your response to recent class discussions online, your current project work, something you might have read elsewhere, and/or previous professional, academic, or personal experience writing and communicating in other contexts.
  • Discuss how the reading contributes to your understanding of the current project, expands your understanding of recent discussions, or suggests ideas for your work in the class.
  • Be sure to cite properly the original reading and any other sources you might mention. Good citation practice is critical in all writing and especially so on the Web.
  • Be sure your post is 300 words or more.
  • Apply the rhetorical considerations discussed in Principles for Posting to Your Weblog to your reading responses.