React with insight into reader’s response
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Think
- Consider the question you are responding to…
- what does your defined meaning, your understanding of your identified quote, make you think / feel?
- why do you think / feel this?
- what is the impact of the word(s) on you / the reader?
- Consider the question you are responding to…
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Write
- Write your reader response in (at least) a single, concise sentence
- ensure this part of your response still reflects on your argument, your identified quote, and how you’ve defined that quote – do not talk about something else, yet.
- Write your reader response in (at least) a single, concise sentence
Example
The use of the colon helps to create an uneasy anticipation in the reader…
This sentence: React
Previous sentence: Explain
Next sentence: Signify
