Dialogic Reading Journals: Running Table of Contents

#1: Robinson: Universities
#2: Robinson, Universities, “Says/Does” table
#3: Kristof: When White People Don’t Get It — annotated
#4: Reiner: Teaching Men to be Emotionally Honest, critical/rhetorical
#5: Bruni, Building a Better Father, Mindfully
#6: Worthen, Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’ — phenomenologically or more critically/rhetorically — the assumption here being that you might get two different meanings depending on your approach
#7: In-class presidential poll
#8: Gross: Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal?
#9: How much curiosity and critical thinking can you bring to a persuasive essay — or to Page A1? Can you describe that process and how it’s linked to meaning making?
#10: Brainstorm 2-3 occasions or examples where critical thinking played a role in your writing process, which can happen in any number of possible places: issue selection; research; drafting, revising, or editing.

Michael R. Moore