Students should feel free to add similar words and expressions to the list. These questions could also be used to help students summarize the main ideas of the excerpts and stories. They are focused on the important ideas in the content with the intention of helping students prepare for the more difficult questions and writing prompts that follow. The ideas could also be used as writing prompts for reader-response essays. In addition, students should feel free to add their own questions to this list.
Chapter One discusses the writing of the reader-response draft.
In addition to Reader Response Topics, other abstract writing prompts in this section give readers more practice with academic, expository writing. Students may choose to write as many drafts as time permits. In addition, students should use the Revising and Editing Checklists to prepare the final copy. Students are encouraged to add to the Revising and Editing Checklists as needed. We would like to thank every writer whose poem, story, article, or excerpt appears in this book.