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You are required to post seven reading reflections on our on this blog over the course of the semester. This is an opportunity for you to organize your thoughts, play with new ideas, and come up with questions/topics that you think need to be discussed in class. Your reflection may be creative or conventional, but it must follow the following directions.

  1. The reading reflection must respond to the prompt that I give prior to the deadline (see schedule). The prompt will be provided on the designated page of each of the reflections on the course blog.
  2. Provide a synthesis and analysis (rather than summary) of the readings. In other words, you may challenge, tie together, add to, illustrate, or question the authors’ findings. But do not merely restate or summarize what the authors wrote. Your analysis should focus on the author’s argument, not their writing style.
  3. Include one short quote (with page # when applicable) from at least two of the readings.
  4. Include your own examples or illustrations when you pose agreement or disagreement and want to challenge the writers. In doing so, you are required to refer to outside sources and include at least 1 hyperlink text (news, opinion, articles, blogs, etc.) and 1 visual media (video or picture). If the videos and pictures are not yours, then you need to give information of the sources by either giving a hyperlink in your text or write “source:…”
  5. End with at least two thoughtful questions about the theme.
  6. Post your reflection to our course blog by 11:59pm on the due date; late reflections will NOT be graded.
  7. You are also required to make two comments on your classmates’ blogposts. Your comments have to go beyond “I agree with you” or “I like your idea” and have to include the reasons why you agree or disagree with your friends’ ideas.
  8. Your post will be graded according to these criteria:
  • Blogposts are worth 3 points each; and, comments are worth 1 point each.
  • Posts are graded 0-3
    • 0 = Not or inadequately completed
    • 1 = Fair, mostly completed
    • 2 = Good, fully completed
    • 3 = Excellent, fully completed and posed challenging questions and issues
  • Comments are graded 0-2
  • 0 = Not or inadequately completed
  • 1 = Only make 1 substantial comment; or, one of the comments does not make a substantial point.
  • 2 = Both comments make substantial points.