You are probably tired of hearing this already, but I'll say it anyway: writing is a conversation.
Authors try to talk to us through what they write. However, as readers,
we don't always get a chance to respond directly to them. But that
doesn't mean we don't respond at all.
Most of the time,
while we are reading an article, we get questions -- maybe about what a
passage means, about the author's intent or purpose, maybe about the
issue that's being tackled in the article. Those questions are
essentially conversation starters; when we read, it's important that our
mind engages with the text actively.
What I expect
we'll do here is bring some (if not all) of those questions here.
Whenever we read something new for our course, we should try to come up
with some questions about the reading. This is a good way to both think about what we've read but to get other people thinking too.
The
best part about questions is that they're never bad or stupid or wrong.
They're just questions. But sometimes they can be more powerful than
answers.
