This class was very interesting to me because for the first time I learned about inkshedding. Prior to this class I never heard about it and I think it can certainly help students to share their ideas knowing that they are protected by their anonymity. I found Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism by Jane Tompkins to be a bit cryptic. The reason for this is that she suggested that the reader should forget who he/she is and simply imbibe the text and let it take him or her away to a magical land in which the writer intended for all of the readers to go. The problem with that notion is that reading in my opinion is an interactive experience between the reader and the text and without background knowledge that the reader contributes to the interaction, the text is nothing but a bunch of words that have no meaning to anyone other that the writer itself.
I enjoyed the assignment because I learned that I was not the only one that had a hard time trying to make sense out of the reading. Also the professor created an environment where the students got the opportunity to see the reading from different perspectives. This would be an excellent assignment when students have difficult topics such as politics or religion to discuss. Students can be free to say whatever they wish and will not have to worry about being chastised for their ideas.
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