{"id":49,"date":"2016-01-05T14:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2021-02-20T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T20:43:41","slug":"reading-response-blog-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/reading-response-blog-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Response Blog Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the semester, you will be asked to provide responses to the reading and film assignments for the day. You\u2019ll find these on your Course Schedule under the headings\u00a0<strong>Watch, Listen,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Read<\/strong>. Each group will be responsible for posting\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>commenting.<\/p>\n<p>Each class day with a blog assignment, write up 2-3 short-ish paragraphs that either 1) respond directly to one or more of the textual readings due for that day, 2) relate the readings to the world at large, and\/or 3) relate the readings to something else from class.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, you must also respond to\u00a0<strong>three<\/strong>\u00a0posts. At least one of those should be an un-commented-upon post (if one exists). Your response may be as short as 1-2 sentences that <em>actually address the content of the post<\/em>, or may be as long as you wish. The three required comments should be in response to a \u201cWeekly blog post\u201d post for that week.<\/p>\n<p>Your blog entries are due 24 hours before class (so at start-of-class time on Monday\/Wednesday). Comments are due\u00a0<strong>by class<\/strong>\u00a0time (24 hours later). Posts begin on March 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, with comments due March 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>To post, log in to WordPress, and you will be taken to the Dashboard. On the left, click on \u201cPosts\u201d and \u201cAdd New,\u201d OR at the top of the screen \u201c+New.\u201d\u00a0Type your entry.\u00a0<strong>When you are done, press \u201cPublish.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Do not worry if your post doesn\u2019t appear immediately; often, new posts (from new posters) have to be \u201capproved\u201d by me before they will appear.<\/p>\n<p>You are being graded on the thoughtfulness of your entries and comments, and should be respectful of others (even if you disagree with them \u2013 which is okay!). You are\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0being graded on your grammar or style, but you should be aware that this is a public board and avoid inappropriate statements or content.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-admin\/post-new.php?post_type=reading-response\">Click here to post a new response.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the semester, you will be asked to provide responses to the reading and film assignments for the day. You\u2019ll find these on your Course Schedule under the headings\u00a0Watch, Listen,\u00a0and\u00a0Read. Each group will be responsible for posting\u00a0and\u00a0commenting. Each class day with a blog assignment, write up 2-3 short-ish paragraphs that either 1) respond directly to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}