This assignment requires the selection of a subject for a review and using a writing journal to explore personal thoughts and opinions about the subject, as well as considering and responding to potential disagreements with those opinions.

Select a possible subject for your review—“a performance, a book, a website, a consumer product, a film, whatever” (p. 241)—and use your writing journal assignment this week to uncover what you really feel and want to say about the subject of your review. Take seriously what our text says on page 243: “The best inquiry-based pojects begin when you’re not quite sure what you think and want to explore a topic to find out.” To help you with that, respond to each of the questions in the “Talking it Through” activity on pages 250-251.
Be sure to write for a few minutes in response to each question. Your journal should be at least 400 words in your journal this week.
Do NOT answer the last question by saying something like, “Everyone’s entitled to his or her own opinion. People are free to like or not like what I’m reviewing.” This is where the aggressiveness must come in. Explain why those who disagree with you are wrong. What are they missing? If you don’t yet know what to say in response to those who disagree, acknowledge that honestly. Before you write your first draft, you’ll need to figure out what to say in response to those who see things differently. If you can’t, then maybe you need to change your mind about your review subject.

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