

We had “reaction papers” when I went to college in the early 2000s, too. It’s usually a weekly or daily assignment in a semi-online course to write a summary and reaction (or, to use a different word, response) to an article or paper. You’d then be expected to comment (critique) on one or two other responses posted by other students in the course. It was a way to encourage critical discussion and thinking on topics.














It’s worse than that, he’s dead, Jim! Dead, Jim! Dead, Jim!