ENG 120 Week 1 Discussion

INSTRUCTIONS:

Part 1: READ

After reading the assignment instructions for Essay 1, the Reader Response Essay, choose a text from the Reader Response options (“Mother Tongue  Download Mother Tongue” or “The Crane Wife  Download The Crane Wife“). This will be the text you write your paper on, so choose one that is powerful to you and that you feel you can spend three weeks writing about.

Part 2: WRITE

The goal of this assignment is to create a document in which you summarize your chosen text and answer six specific questions about that text. This activity is designed to help you begin brainstorming and recording potential ideas and content that you might eventually use in your Reader Response essay.  In order for you to organize your responses, the following template has been provided: ASSIGNMENT TEMPLATE Download ASSIGNMENT TEMPLATE

This template can be used for you to create your assignment and submit via Canvas.

Suggestions for success:

• Read your chosen text more than once. Reading it multiple times will help you see and remember details you missed the first time around.
• Annotate as you read.  This includes taking notes, writing down questions, freewriting your reactions, and engaging with the text by highlighting or underlining (note: it’s a good idea to print a copy).
• In your summary, be sure to capture the most important elements of the text in your own words.  Note: a summary is purely objective, meaning it provides readers with an overview of the main points from the text.  It does not yet provide your response or reaction to the text.
•  Remember, no element of a text is too small or subtle!
• Responses should be in full and complete sentences.  This activity is designed to help you brainstorm potential summary and response points, but it also is a place to practice clear writing.