Please read the essay, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," by
Ursula Le Guin in our Current Issues textbook. You have a reading
response due 2:00pm on Monday (submitted to the dropbox titled Reading
Response 3); please be prepare to discuss the essay in class.
The
focus of your reading responses should align with the guidelines of the
next paper (please see the Summary/Response Assignment sheet for more
details), since my feedback for this reading response and the next one
will be applicable to the Summary/Response paper.
To clarify
what we covered in class, you should be conducting exploratory research
of a broad topic that you want to write about and continue researching
for the remainder of the course. Ideally, you have narrowed down the
broad topic (using the student example from class, which is available
for downloading in the Content section of D2L) to a focused research
question and are gathering sources related to that topic.
For
the Summary/Response paper, you will be selecting one source that you've
located and write a short summary of the article, followed by a
critical analysis/evaluation to determine whether or not it can/will be
useful to your final paper. In class yesterday, I wanted you to compile a
list of potential sources for this paper, copy/paste the links to your
blog, and practice summarizing the contents from one of the links. I
know there was some confusion about this, and I wasn't as clear about
these directions as I should have been in class, so I wanted to clarify
the directions of the exercise here. If you still have questions about
the assignment, please email me as soon as possible.
