You are required to write one journal response per week, due by 7 p.m. Friday evening, posted to your journal page on the wiki. Give each response a title and a date, and put the most recent response at the top of the page. (Thus, your journal page will be formatted somewhat like a blog, or like the announcements page of this wiki.)
Each response should be about 300 words long. You can write about anything we've read or discussed in class that week. Perhaps you want to respond to something that came up in class discussion, or you had something to say but didn't get a chance to say it. Or maybe you thought of the perfect comment as you were walking out the door. The journal is a place to continue the thinking that we begin in class. The journal can also provide a way for those who don't talk a lot in class to show their participation.
Journal responses can take any form. They can be fragmented, questioning, irreverent, speculative. They can make an argument. They can try out half-formed thoughts or half-baked ideas. They throw out ideas for an essay or presentation. The only requirement is that they in some way communicate thinking.
Journal Assignment
You are required to write one journal response per week, due by 7 p.m. Friday evening, posted to your journal page on the wiki. Give each response a title and a date, and put the most recent response at the top of the page. (Thus, your journal page will be formatted somewhat like a blog, or like the announcements page of this wiki.)
Each response should be about 300 words long. You can write about anything we've read or discussed in class that week. Perhaps you want to respond to something that came up in class discussion, or you had something to say but didn't get a chance to say it. Or maybe you thought of the perfect comment as you were walking out the door. The journal is a place to continue the thinking that we begin in class. The journal can also provide a way for those who don't talk a lot in class to show their participation.
Journal responses can take any form. They can be fragmented, questioning, irreverent, speculative. They can make an argument. They can try out half-formed thoughts or half-baked ideas. They throw out ideas for an essay or presentation. The only requirement is that they in some way communicate thinking.