Reader Response Assignments

For these assignments you will choose two or more readings from Part 6 in Everything's An Argument. Part 6 is divided into 6 chapters, each with a different thematic focus, as shown below. Each chapter/section contains a variety of written and visual texts, so you will have to look them all over before you decide which specific items/texts you will choose.

See the course schedule for specific due dates (these dates may change, so make sure you keep informed). Feel free to work ahead, but do not turn in responses before the due date. Each response is worth 25 points.

Feel free to express your opinions: do you agree or disagree with the authors? Feel free to make connections between one text and another, between the text and your lived experiences, between the text and what you have heard, read, or seen in other classes or in other contexts. As much as possible in those two pages, you should develop a full response to the text.

There is no "right" or "wrong" approach to this assignment. However, it should be free of technical and grammatical errors. Any paper that is not correctly annotated or that contains more than three gross errors in the first page will recieve an automatic failing grade. Students have three days to make the necessary corrections and resubmit.

Here is the order of assignments. See Weekly Schedule for specific due dates.

RR 1: Chapter 23, Mirror, Mirror...Images and the Media
RR 2: Chapter 24, What's Public? What's Private?
RR 3: Chapter 25, Time off, Time Out
RR 4: Chapter 26, Who Owns What?
RR 5: Chapter 27, Language(s) and Identities
RR 6: Chapter 28, Beliefs and Stances

Guidelines :

• 2 pages, typed, double-spaced
  You must follow MLA guidelines. Review the MLA section in Hacker and Chapter 22, "Documenting Sources," which contains sample pages.
  All material that is borrowed from the text—whether quoted, paraphrased, or summarized—must be documented appropriately following MLA guidelines. Use parenthetical references; do not use footnotes or end notes. Your paper will also include a "Works Cited Page." See page 442 for a sample.
• Any paper that is not correctly annotated or that contains more than three gross errors in the first page will recieve an automatic failing grade. Students have three days to make the necessary corrections and resubmit.
  

Grading Criteria (click on the link to see the grading rubric) This grading rubric will apply to all written work, except where noted otherwise.

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