{"id":2372,"date":"2023-04-20T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/?post_type=ksasresearchprojects&#038;p=2372"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:10:09","slug":"responding-critically-to-readings","status":"publish","type":"ksasresearchprojects","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/projects\/responding-critically-to-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding Critically to Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scholarly writing involves building on others\u2019 work. Often, the success of a piece of writing hinges on the depth of students\u2019 engagement with sources. To help students develop critical reading skills&#8211;and make sure they do the reading!&#8211;we may ask them to post questions and comments about assigned readings to a discussion forum, in lieu of or in preparation for in-class discussion. This <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2023\/04\/Critical-Reading-strategies-lesson-plan.docx\">lesson plan<\/a>, developed by UWP Lecturer Rebecca Wilbanks for Katherine Henry\u2019s Applications of Biological Concepts in Public Health (with associated <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2024\/07\/Model-library-critical-reading-response-slides.pdf\">slides<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2023\/04\/Model-library-critical-reading-strategies-handout.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">handout<\/a>), is meant to help students formulate more thoughtful, probing, and critical questions and reading responses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bonus activity for in-person discussions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The moves we make in a discussion seminar as we respond to colleagues\u2014agreeing, extending, disagreeing, and making connections between others\u2019 remarks\u2014are the same moves that we make in scholarly writing. This <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2023\/04\/Model-library-conversational-moves.docx\">modeling exercise<\/a> from UWP Teaching Professor Aliza Watters asks students to model different moves during an in-person discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slides and activities to up the level of online and in-person discussions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2373,"parent":0,"template":"","project_type":[168],"class_list":["post-2372","ksasresearchprojects","type-ksasresearchprojects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_type-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksasresearchprojects\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksasresearchprojects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ksasresearchprojects"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksasresearchprojects\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksasresearchprojects\/2372\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}