Reading Questions

Background

The lectures for this class will assume that students have read the chapter before class. In order to reinforce that and in order to make the lectures more effective in deepening student understanding of the material, we have instituted a "reading questions" requirement.

Assignment

For each lecture with an assigned reading (see the schedule of topics and assignments), answer the following question to the appropriate Discussion Area on Canvas: What in the reading was most confusing? If you can, articulate a question about it. If nothing was confusing, what further questions does this reading raise for you?

There are 17 lectures with associated reading assignments, so each student should submit 17 reading question posts. These will collectively count for 5% of your course grade.

Procedure

Submit RQ to the appropriate Canvas Discussion area by 11:59 pm the night before class, with a subject line indicating the topic of your question.

Note: We're asking you to post the reading questions because we think it will be of interest for you to see each others' questions. However, we do not expect you to go through the other reading questions before posting your own. Repeats/highly similar questions are expected and welcomed (but questions should arise from reading --- just paraphrasing something doesn't count ;-).


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