This week, among other things, we're reading both Fahnestock & Secor's "Rhetoric of Literary Criticism" and Laura Wilder's revisit. In honor of those pieces, I thought I'd dig up the summary that @caseyboyle and I inadvertently wrote of RLC:
@estee_beck @Sparbtastic I tweak the ratio of shared/individual readings depending on the course goals, pretty widely. But one thing I always do is, first day, we develop a structure for reading notes. I blogged a bit about it here: https://t.co/0ELlTeZYAt
@Sparbtastic @estee_beck I do this a lot—it totally changed my approach to grad classes to ask myself if/why I needed to have everyone always reading the same thing, esp in a room where folks have different backgrounds and interests. I’m happy to share a couple of suggestions, if you’re interested