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Week 1 Response Paper Instructions This reflection and analysis paper will be based on all the required readings from the first week (you may also include optional readings if you wish to do so). Response paper is no longer than three, double-spaced pages (excluding the title page and reference list). You will be evaluated on your analysis of the readings/topics assigned for that week. Description In a reaction or response paper, writers respond to the texts they have read. In responding to multiple texts, you must also discover how the texts relate to one another. A reaction paper may include a discussion of interesting questions that the readings raise for the student, but such a discussion is not sufficient by itself. Writing good response papers is more demanding than it might appear at first. It is not simply a matter of reading the text, understanding it, and expressing an opinion about it. You must allow yourself enough time to be clear about what each text says and how the texts all relate to one another. In other words, response papers require you to synthesize the intellectual work of others—that is, bring it together into an integrated whole. In preparing to write response papers, therefore, it is crucial that you allow yourself not just enough time to do the readings but enough to digest what you have read and to put the results together into a unified account.
