Blog Assignment #3

Choose a reading from the FIRE text book and write a response to it. You may choose any chapter that isn't already on our reading schedule. Choose one that's written on a topic that's interesting to you.

In your response you should give the following information but it needn't be in this order - you can and should be creative about how this content appears in your reading response:

1. Give your paper a title.
2. Identify the title of the chapter and the author(s).
3. Summarize the author's main idea.
4. Cite the author twice - cite them directly... meaning use a DIRECT QUOTE, in quotations marks and given the page number)
5. What do you think about the article? This might be the most important part of your assignment. Don't just tell me what the author says, you need to RESPOND TO THE AUTHOR...if you were going to have a conversation with that person about what they wrote, what would you say to her or him? Simply dis/agreeing is not enough - you have to have a good reason for your position and be able to explain it in your writing... remember, everyon has an opinion, I want to know what you THINK and WHY YOU THINK it...which brings me to #6...
6. Include your own experience as a context for your thoughts about the article.

The posting to the blog should be no longer than 600 words and no shorter than 500. Please use appropriate citational form...remember there's information about that on our course website, too.

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