Rebecca Moore Howard
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In-class writing, 1/21/03

January 21

Write a response to Davis & Shadle, "Building a Mystery," Critical Convergences 5-26. The following may give you some ideas for focusing your response:

1. What do you find potentially useful in the text you are reading? What issues or situations can it help people understand or solve?
2. On what basis might someone agree with this text? Do you?
3. On what basis might someone argue with this text? Would you?
4. What issues (large or small) in this text would you like to know more about, and why?
5. What would you like to say to the author of this text? Who else do you wish would read this text? Why?
6. What do you notice about the vocabulary, style, and organization of the text? How do these affect the argument that the text makes?
7. How does the text connect with other things you have studied?
8. How does it connect with other aspects of your life, other experiences that you have had?
9. How might this text affirm, challenge, or change your thinking on this topic?
10. What would be (or are) the social consequences of widespread acceptance of the ideas in this text?
    

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