Troy/ENB230/Reading Log Report (two pages, plus copies of all log entries)

*Materials complements of Professor Michelle Troy , Communication

Since midterm time is upon us, I’d like you to do this brief typed report on your reading log so I have a basis for gauging your progress as readers. This is an informal overview rather than a formal paper. You may either write it up as a list of questions and answers, or you may write it up in regular paragraph form, whichever you prefer. For this report, I’m more interested in your insights than in how you package them. So do make sure to take care of spelling errors, but don’t spend hours on perfect phrasing. I will base your grade on the quality of your logs up until this point; with this said, your reflections are important because they may help me notice things about your logs that I might take into account.

Your report should include:

A) Print outs of all of your log entries for the semester thus far, directly printed from the on-line reading log site.

B)Your own descriptive, analytic, and reflective account of what you find in your reading log (about two pages). This is basically an overview, from your perspective, of the work you’ve done on your reading log thus far.

For this response, please address these questions:

1. How many entries have you written?

2. What is their average length? (number of lines of text)

3. What do you usually talk about in your entries? That is, what elements of poems or stories do you tend to con-iment on, or what is it that you tend to talk about or focus on in your commentaries?

4. What element of your work in the entries do you think is strongest? Give an example.

5. What element of your work in the entries do you feel you could work on in the second half of the semester? Give an example.

6. Is there anything else you’d like me to notice about your work in the log? Examples or quotes are helpful for support here, too!

Due date: Thursday, March 4, 2004 no later than 2:30 p.m. You may slide them under my office door, or give them to the secretary in Hillyer 116 to place in my mailbox.

Steps to Access On-Line Reading Log:

1. Click on Communication Button (in blue menu on left of course homepage)

2. Click on Group Pages (not Discussion Board)

3. Click on the group that contains your name

4. Click on Group Discussion Board

5. Click on On-Line Reading Log

6. Click on Add Thread, write your response, and then click Submit