From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Feb 6 09:56:24 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l16EuOx8004712 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:56:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (upfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.4.140]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l16EuJWa077117 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:56:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 17905 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 14:56:19 -0000 Received: from mailscan5.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.137) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 14:56:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 17877 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 14:56:19 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 14:56:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 28802 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 14:56:02 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 14:56:02 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3175158 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:56:02 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 9921 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 14:56:02 -0000 Received: from mailscan7.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.158) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 14:56:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 18353 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 14:56:02 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 14:56:02 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l16Eu1d1004695 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:56:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l16Eu10u004694 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:56:01 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702061456.l16Eu10u004694@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:56:01 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: READING JOURNALS To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2527/Tue Feb 6 05:14:46 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 1428 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: READING JOURNALS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A student writes: > Subject: Reading Journal Due Date > > Assigned yet? I assume the student is asking when the Reading Journals will be due. The syllabus says that "I reserve the right to collect these Journals at any time during, or at the end of, the semester". This should not be a problem at any point during the semester; here's why: You should NOT wait till the day before I collect them, and then try to create a Reading Journal that will simulate what you should have been doing all along! You should be reading *now*; I've assigned lots to read, and will be assigning lots more. In some ways, reading is what the course is all about. All I'm trying to do in lecture is to guide you in your readings, to give your readings some narrative structure (what kind of story do all of these readings put together tell? what answers do they suggest to the questions with which we began the semester?), and to "bring together" some of the apparently disparate ideas. But if you're reading now, you should also be writing in your Reading Journals now. So, if I decided to collect them tomorrow, you should all, already, have a lot written in them. A long answer to a short question! Keep reading, and keep writing (and thereby keep thinking)!