English 397 - MODERN FICTION- Fall 2007 MIDTERM AUDIT REPORTS ON READING LOGS– From The Literature Workshop, by Sheridan Blau, Heinemann '03: 166-67 (with some emendations)
Your audit report on your log will include two major sections: your own descriptive, analytic, and reflective account (about two or three pages in length) of what you find in your reading log and three sample entries from your log. In composing and putting together your report, make sure you address the kinds of questions listed under each heading below: 1. Description: A Brief Tour. Show your reader what she would see if she read your log. Include information answering such questions as the following: How many entries have you written? What is their average length? How many are long or short or in between? How many of the works we have read have you written about? What does your log look like? 2. Analysis. Answer questions such as the following: What do you usually write about in your entries? What aspects of the texts do you tend to comment on or have questions about? How have your entries changed (if they have) since the term began? What changes do you notice in topics, length, language, and so on? What might account for differences in the content, length, or quality of your entries? What else do you notice about your entries? Refer to specific entries as examples. Quote from them, if you need to. 3. Reflection. What do your log entries amount to? Do you find any worthwhile writing in your log? What value do you place on this log or on some of its entries? If you were teaching this course, would you ask your students to keep a reading log? Why or why not? What do the representative entries you have included show your reader about your log? 4. Sample Log Entries. Choose three entries that you feel are representative of the content of your reading log. These need not be the 'best' entries, but rather those you feel offer the most accurate picture of the kind of writing your log contains. Please include xeroxed copies of these entries with your audit report, showing the date when each was originally written. If these entries are not very legible, please type them out or rewrite them legibly before including them in your report.
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