​Guidelines for Reading Responses (RRs) 

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• An effective RR will be between one and two pages, single-spaced. You will use the memo genre, which allows headings and emphasizes clarity and conciseness.  Some of your RRs may be longer as you engage more with the readings. You will need to provide textual evidence and cite the sources!

  • The Reading Response template can be found in Blackboard>Readings and Templates>Templates>Reading Response Template. Copy and past this on the running document in your Online Folder. ​

  • For each assigned reading, depending on the source of the reading, pick one of the questions below and respond to that prompt. 

    • Copy and paste the prompt and write your response underneath. ​​​

  • For the Closure-Tying Things Together section, demonstrate connections across the readings:

    • how do the readings from that week connect or support each other?​

    • how do they argue against each other?

    •   You may use the Phrasebank to help tie concepts together.​​

• Some of your RRs may be longer as you engage more with the readings. When one RR covers more than one reading, you will obviously need more than one page. 

• Your audience for all Reading Responses will be Professor Flores, even though your classmates and other instructors and librarians may read these too. 

• Your purpose for writing these Reading Responses is to demonstrate the following: 

  • you have read (or viewed) the assignments carefully, by selecting what you think are the more important ideas or concepts from each reading and explaining why you think it is important;

  • you are making connections among the specific readings for each week with the readings you have done in previous weeks in the course; 

  • you compare the more important concept or ideas in the reading with your previous experiences, using examples from your past experiences to illustrate your explanations; and you explore how the ideas in the readings might apply to your current work (other than this course) as a student and/or your future work as a student or professional or citizen.