Reading Response Prompt

The questions below are meant to help you get started on your reading responses. You don’t have to answer all of them.
In fact, you don’t have to work from these questions at all, if there is a different way you would like to focus your reading
response. As long as you engage substantially with the reading and connect it to class concepts and analyses, you are free
to structure and orient the response as you see fit. Reading responses are expected to be at least a page in length and
no more than 5 pages. Unlike homeworks, reading responses are not expected to be polished write ups, but
more akin to notes. They should however be explicit enough that I can interpret them.

1. What are the main contributions of this paper?

2. What are the main points the authors try to make?
3. What is the empirical foundation for these points?

4. What analysis is proposed?

5. What are the strengths of the paper?
6. Are there weaknesses?
7. What are the things you don’t understand?

8. Is there data that you would have liked to see included?

9. Are there aspects of the analysis that you would have liked to see elaborated more?
10. Are there claims or assumptions in the paper that you take issue with?

11. If you are going to remember one from from this paper a year from now, what would it be?