Earlier in the session, I found myself thwarted in my attempt to provide a sample assignment response when the first week’s assignments were quizzes alone. As I sat down to draft a response for the fifth week’s assignment, though, I found myself having the opposite problem. Instead of encountering an assignment I could not meaningfully or ethically exemplify for my students, I encountered one I have already abundantly exemplified for them. Instead of having no work that could be done, I had ample work that had already been done–which is a much better situation to be in than that I had had before.

What the students are asked to do in my class this week is read an article, write a summary of it, and write a response to it. I have no shortage of such things already available, in this webspace and elsewhere, even if they are not necessarily in the APA format requested by the institution. But I’ve practiced that format enough with my current students that I do not know that I need to give it them again, so, instead of making an offhand reference to where they can find examples in this webspace, I’ll give a list of a few of them that seem to have attracted most attention:

• Sample Textual Analysis: Picking apart a Fictional Puzzle
• Sample Evaluation: Fitting a Fictional Puzzle into Place
• In Response to Paul Sturtevant
• In another Response to Paul Sturtevant
• In Response to Adam Kirk Edgerton
• Responses to Erin Bartram
  • In Response to Erin Bartram
  • In another Response to Erin Bartram
  • In yet another Response to Erin Bartram
  • In Response to Erin Bartram Once Again

I hope they provide useful models of content for my students and for others to follow.

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