English

English 202 Reading Log Audit and Reflection Due: Monday, April 29 15% of your class grade

As a way of reporting your work-in-progress on your reading logs, please conduct the reading log audit described here and submit an audit report. Your audit report will include two major sections: your own descriptive, analytic, and reflective account of what you find in your reading log (about two-three pages in length) and three sample entries from your log. In composing and putting together your report, make sure you address the kinds of questions listed under each heading below:

Description: A Brief Tour

How many entries have your written? What is their average length? How many are long or short or in between? How many texts have you written about, and how many chapters or sections of texts? Analysis: In this section of your report you should discuss the content of your log entries, answering such questions as the following: what do you usually write about? What elements of texts so you tend to comment on, or what is it that you tend to write about in your commentaries on the texts? How have your log entries changed (if they have) over the past few weeks? What changes do you notice in length, topics, language, and so on? What else do you notice about your log entries? Refer to specific entries as examples—not necessarily the three entries you include as samples. Feel free to quote from your entries as needed.

Reflection: Think about what your log entries amount to. Do you find any worthwhile writing in your log? What value do you place on this log or on some of its entries, if not all of them? Have you found any reason for keeping a reading log another than because the instructor assigned it? If you were the teacher of this course, would you ask your students to keep a reading log? Why or why not? What do the sample entries you have included show your reader about your log? Sample Log Entries: Choose three log entries that you feel are representative of the contents of your reading log. These need not be the “best” entries, but rather those that you feel offer the most accurate picture of the kind of writing your journal

contains. Submit these with your audit report, showing the date when each was originally written. If your suspect that the entries you would like to submit as most representative are not legible, please type them or otherwise rewrite them legibly before including them in the report.