How should you prepare for inquiry sessions?

Inquiry sessions are times for you to read and understand. The latter can be difficult sometimes when the authors you are reading are writing from a different perspective than from which you are reading. So, the purpose of the seminar is to help make the connection between writer and reader. To do that, you must have a hunch where something just is not clicking. So, preparation is a matter of sensing things you do not understand and bringing your questions to class. This only becomes challenging when you feel you don't understand enough to ask the right question. So, don't worry about whether it is the right question or not, ask it from your reader's perspective rather than from the author's writing perspective. So, here are three hints:

• Write down questions you have while you are reading. Try to answer them for yourself. Whether you succeed or fail, bring them to class. Remember, no question is too dumb. And probably no question has just one answer.
• Totally befuddled? No hope of formulating a question? Mark the passage and let us work with it in class.
• Write down your new insights in your reading. Understand something different than you did the last time to read this material? Write down those understandings.

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