1) Identify what seems to you a particularly important, or insightful, or outrageous, or thought-provoking, or rhetorically powerful passage in the assigned reading. The passage should be important for your understanding of the assigned reading.

2) Explain (that is, make a case, however briefly) why you judge that passage to be so important for understanding the text. The key here is to make a connection between the point you identify and its larger context. Excellent reflection writing (i.e., writing at an "A" level) should consider how something explicit in the text results in implicit effects (whether logically or imaginatively). In some cases, the connection you make could involve drawing out the logical implications of a claim or examining its assumptions. In other cases you might consider the dramatic context for a specific statement (e.g., By whom? Under what implied circumstances?) or explain the effects that arise from combining different types of imagery. The key point is that your aim in these reflections is not simply to emote but to engage logical thinking through the writing process.

3) Offer one critically incisive question regarding the text which you believe raises a crucial point in the reading that we should discuss as a class. Avoid questions that are banal or vague; if your question could be asked clearly at the beginning of your reflection writing, then the question is probably too general. Your final question should develop out of the specific insights presented by your reflection writing and should require that we consider carefully the text itself, not just the general topic that it raises.

Link to the text:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctv138wrs6.25.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A9300dd1a999cd0c8ce2208c7a4100359&ab_segments=&origin=