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Writing A Reading Reaction Response Paper
Writing A Reading Reaction Response Paper
Response Paper
What Does Writing a Reading Reaction
Response Paper Involve?
• Critical Reading
– Identifying the ideas, organization, and purpose of the reading
• Critical Thinking
– Analyzing and evaluating the reading and ideas
• Reacting in Writing
– Identifying the reading’s key ideas
– Stating your opinion about a particular part or all of the
reading
– Supporting your opinion with appropriate details, quotations,
and explanations
Purpose of a Reading Reaction Response
Paper
• It’s a way to express what you think about a the reading in an
organized way including:
– Evidence that you have understood what the reading says and does
– Your reaction to the writer’s ideas
– Your evaluation of the reading’s strengths and weaknesses
• Works Cited:
– Separate page
– Alphabetical
– Spacing
– Hanging Indent
– Sufficient Info. Cited