GUIDELINES FOR RESPONDING TO READINGS:

* Highlight the author's main thesis, arguments, and criticisms.
* Praise the arguments, proofs, theories, tools, methods which the article brings to your learning process.
* Identify a few select quotations as springboards to launch your own discussion of the text.
* Question. Assert your own critical thinking by asking yourself: What does this text raise for you that you feel is worthy of examination by a larger community of writers, thinkers, researchers such as yourself and your in-class colleagues?
* POV (point of view): How are you synthesizing this information into your learners' toolkit? Is shifting occurring for you?