question archive Reading Response Paper Length: 2 pages (double spaced) Note on Workshopping: You will be workshopping reading responses in six labs throughout the term in both large and small groups
Reading Response Paper Length: 2 pages (double spaced) Note on Workshopping: You will be workshopping reading responses in six labs throughout the term in both large and small groups
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Reading Response Paper
Length: 2 pages (double spaced)
Note on Workshopping: You will be workshopping reading responses in six labs throughout the term in both large and small groups. Please prepare your responses with the understanding that you will be sharing them both with your lab instructor and your peers in the class. This will be an opportunity to share constructive feedback and grow together as writers, but for it to be valuable, it does require that you put care and effort into the preparation of your work.
Objective: This assignment is designed as a simple and straightforward introduction to the challenges of writing in the humanities and social sciences. These responses will provide you with the opportunity to practice your writing without the pressure of formal evaluation and will introduce you to the process of workshopping, as you will be expected to share your responses for feedback and constructive criticism. More specifically, these response papers will introduce you to one of the most fundamental tasks you will face as an academic writer: engagement with the scholarly work of others. Each paper will challenge you to concisely articulate the key intellectual intervention of a scholar and then determine how that contribution fits within the larger thematic trajectory of the course. Additionally, it will require you to make use of scholarly referencing practices, specifically, APA citation.
Topic: Each reading response must be prepared in response to one of the week’s primary texts, assigned for either Monday OR Wednesday’s class.
Requirements: These responses are very short and have a few specific requirements. First, you must begin with an introduction that articulates a thesis statement and roadmaps your brief paper, explicitly (but concisely) including all of the elements that will follow. Mention Bakhtin 4 times. In the second paragraph, you must explain the argument your author makes about justice/fairness/freedom--what is their central claim and what concepts/evidence do they deploy to defend it? In the third paragraph, you must address the question of how this author's reading of justice/fairness/freedom contributes to or challenges the liberal tradition of political, economic, and philosophical thought? Finally, in your conclusion, you must tie together the various strands of your paper and make an ultimate statement of significance that flows logically from your preceding discussion.
Referencing: This is your first opportunity to engage in scholarly referencing practices in this course. My expectation is that you will rely heavily on paraphrasing rather than specific quotations unless the precise language of the author you are referring to is directly relevant to your argument, although very brief and fragmented quotation to exemplify the author’s choice of diction is encouraged. You are required to use APA referencing for all assignments in this course. This means you must provide parenthetical in-text citations and a references list at the end of the paper that includes all (but only) texts referenced in the body of the essay. Please refer to https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.
Revision: It is important to be aware that two of these papers will ultimately be revised and then resubmitted for formal assessment on October 21, 2024 and November 27 or 29, 2024 (in lab). It is your choice which of your papers are revised for this purpose, but keep in mind that you should draw on the feedback you and others receive in your lab writing workshops to refine your paper in terms of structure, argument, and prose style/grammar.
Tone/Audience/Style: An important consideration in any writing you engage in is who you are writing for, your audience. This will dictate the type of language you use and the assumptions you make about the knowledge and expertise of your audience. For this assignment and all the assignments in this course, you should understand your audience to be the equivalent of undergraduate students in an academic context. This means that your tone should be relatively formal (compared to casual writing like e-mails or text messages), but also that you should not assume your readers have an absolute command of esoteric disciplinary language. In this context, it is far preferable for you to write in a clear and accessible way about the ideas you are engaging with than to employ sophisticated vocabulary that you do not have full mastery of.
Formatting: Times New Roman 12 point font; 1-inch margins; APA referencing, including in-text citations and a properly-formatted reference list.
Feedback: Only your formally graded papers will receive written feedback from your lab instructor. Otherwise, feedback will come from in-class workshop.
