The choice lies in context and a teacher s agenda. As well, rubrics should represent the university s emphasis on sound style, drafting, and grammatical skills as the essential tools of a successful university and professional life. On Journals Reader-response journal. To be completed either during or immediately after your reading. Response journals should be designed in such a way as to help you discover specific textual threads or personal feelings about what you have read.
Journals ought to be one full page, single spaced, typed.
As you will recall from our syllabus, you are to keep a responsible and efficient reading journal in lieu of a major research assignment at semester s end. Rather, the discovery and further development of threads and ideas in a responsible reader-response journal will allow you to reason, develop, and hash out concerns and meanings that you, yourself, have discovered during your reading experience. The purpose of the journal is for you to keep a record of your literary journey, what you ve seen, what you ve discovered, connections you ve made, etc. etc. . . . I suggest you do this carefully and with an eye to following the syllabus because the syllabus is a record of policy and evaluative standards both of which I intend to follow closely. At least three short papers generated from your reader-response journal.