Editing Organizing and Governance in Online Communities (UW COM597 Winter 2025) (section)

=== Weekly Response Papers ===

This quarter includes 9 class sessions with readings (the tenth and final session will be devoted to final presentations). You must each write 9 response papers that address the readings for each day of class with reading. Response papers should be ''no more than'' 1,000 words (about two single-spaced pages). Please respect this maximum to manage your workload and others. So everyone will have a chance to incorporate them into their readings, response papers should be posted to our course website the day before (i.e., before 11:59pm on Thursday) so that the instructors and students can read and construct their responses on Friday.

Regarding content, response papers allow you to engage the readings by identifying common or conflicting premises, thinking through potential implications, offering political or cultural examples, posing well-supported objections, or outlining theoretical or critical extensions. Providing a short quote or two that directly engages the texts is often helpful. Please also pose one or two open-ended questions that may serve as jumping-off points for our in-class conversation. A good response paper will include minimal summarizing, at most, and focus more on responding to ideas. Justify your reflections with evidence from the text and beyond; for example, don't just say what you wonder about or find interesting without explaining why you find it interesting.

Turn in your response paper to Canvas by posting a new message on the appropriate [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1808091/discussion_topics the discussion board in Canvas].

After you post your reflection, please read all of your classmates’ responses before class and ''briefly'' respond to a minimum of two of your classmates’ posts before noon on the day of class and nominate at least a question or two for discussion.