Description
Assignment: A “reader response” essay is simply a way for you, as a reader, to respond in writing to a specific issue that troubles, fascinates, enlightens, or illuminates something within your chosen text(s). While I will not give specific provocations (or questions) to you about where to concentrate your writing, I hope to offer many questions and issues during the lectures and class discussions.
My only designations are that you should write about the material that we have read, viewed, and discussed in Units Seven and Eight. Thus: You and our readings from Natural Born Celebrities, and any concepts discussed in the discussion sections or lectures within those areas.
Specifics: These reader responses should be two-pages in length, double-spaced, with one inch margins, and normal pitch fonts. Longer writing will not garner you a better grade, so use the format to show your precision, focus, and support clearly within the space allowed. The work should be, otherwise in MLA or APA format, with a thesis or argument.
Resources: Your will not be required to use any resources to complete these essays, outside of our classroom text, Natural Born Celebrities or the films under consideration. If you choose to use quotations from any text, however, please use the MLA or APA format for citations.
MLA: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/ (Links to an external site.)
APA: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/ (Links to an external site.)
Reader Response Essays 1-4 Grading Rubric
Reader Response Essays will be graded according to the following rubric.
Rubric for Written Work
| Competency | Exceeds Expectation (3) | Meets Expectation (2) | Does Not Meet Expectation (1) | No Evidence (0) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Evaluation Outcomes | Interpretation of readings that incorporates personal and critical responses seamlessly with fresh insight and energy. | Interpretation of readings adequately incorporates both personal and critical responses. | Interpretation of readings lacks appropriate balance between personal and critical insight. | Does not turn in assignment. |
Synthesis Outcomes | Incorporates primary and secondary sources using MLA Documentation Style perceptively and creatively in ways that contribute to new knowledge while still retaining personal writing style. | Incorporates primary and secondary sources using MLA Documentation Style adequately without particularly fresh insights while still retaining personal writing style. | Primary and secondary sources rarely used if at all, without adequate MLA. Documentation. Insights are predictable and do not contribute to new knowledge. Writing is not commensurate with usual style of a college student. | Does not turn in assignment. |
Analysis Outcomes | Provides convincing connections between texts and offers clear and creative critiques through close readings to illustrate main point of essay. | Provides connections between texts that are obvious but nonetheless interesting. Writer adequately critiques the primary readings through close readings, though does not offer critical insight. | Connections between texts remain vague and undeveloped. Presents a critique not supported by close readings. | Does not turn in assignment. |
Application 6.4 Outcomes | Literary and critical terminology used appropriately and with ease throughout the paper. | Employs literary and critical terminology adequately in parts of the paper. | Rarely uses literary and critical terminology, misuses it, or omits it altogether. | Does not turn in assignment. |
Content of Communication 6.5 Outcomes | Includes carefully chosen passages from literary and critical texts as well as personal statements that illustrate point of essay, and helps reader see texts in new ways. | Adequately includes representative passages from literary and critical texts as well as personal statements to illustrate point of essay. | Rarely provides specific passages for analysis, instead offering plot summary with little or no interpretation of texts. | Does not turn in assignment. |
Technical Skill in Communicating Outcomes | Employs conventions of Standard Written English in a well-organized, fully developed project/paper. | Employs conventions of Standard Written English in a well-organized, adequately developed project/paper. | Illogical statements, lack of development and organization, and persistent problems with use of Standard Written English interferes with reader's ability to understand the point of the paper. | Does not turn in assignment. |
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The book Natural Born Celebrities presents an interesting, yet an awakening view of the
way society views the issue of serial killers by idolizing them and the consequences that could
have on the morals of the society. Reading this book, one begins to realize that although serial
murders are horrible and probably the highest degree of crime in the society, they do not
necessarily receive the public condemnation but rather spark an unwavering interest in the
perpetrators. The question that comes to one’s mind is why? The answer to that question would
require a deeper study of psychology, sociology, and probably philosophy as well. However, one
thing that is sure is that consumerism has been guided by these stories of merciless killers in the
society. Upon reading David Schmid’s Natu...
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