What are the “Reading Blogs” and how are they graded?
A. You are expected to have read the assigned papers/text book sections for the class before the class meeting; the material is complex enough that you will fall quickly behind if you are not prepared. This quarter we will be doing things a bit differently than you might be used to. Instead of asking each of you to write a summary for each of the papers over the quarter, the class will write a collective review for the reading in this course. How this works: by 5:30pm on the day of each class, please log onto the message board web site (note you’ll need your UW-NetID login and password), read the prior posts for that week, and then add some useful comment to the threads for that week. Typically there will be one thread per paper and section of the book. The comments you post can/should be brief — e.g., just a couple sentences — that adds something to the ongoing discussion in that thread. Examples include: the main idea of the paper, a list of pro’s, a list of con’s, an example of wh
