I really appreciate that! :) Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see me do in the future. I'm hoping to make some time for that this summer, and I always CC my vids so there aren't any problems using them in the classroom (which was sort of the inspiration for this channel in the first place)

Thank you! :) If you have any questions, lemme' know. I do get KZbin notifications on comments.

Thank you! 🙂 Don't hesitate to let me know if you have follow-up questions. I can always answer here.

Happy to help! :)

Yeah, happy to help! :) You should have an email from me in your inbox. Let me know if you have any questions.

Hi! Thank you for the kind words! :) My email is [email protected]. Please feel free to reach out. I'd love to help you with what you're working on!

Reader response focuses on how the reader and text interact with each other. Normally, we look at the text as creating all meaning (we're reading the author's words after all; this makes sense). Reader response says "but how much meaning is the reader responsible for?" and that's a worthy question to ask. For example, if 100% of the meaning is in the text, how can one reader love a book and the other person hate it? That's an oversimplification, but gets at the basic idea of reader response, that somewhere, deep down, we help the text create meaning.

If you feel comfortable, you're welcome to email me at [email protected]. That's my KZbin-specific email. I'm happy to help you one-on-one. Otherwise, can you tell me a little more about the essay you're trying to write? That'd be my next question if you emailed me.

@@ryanhitch6350 Thanks for your reply. I really appreciate that. I emailed you 🥰

What's up? :) How can I help? Let me know what the problem is and I'll do my best to help asap!

How can I reach you in fb or other way ! Pls it's about my dissertation and I'm completely lost because I'm using 4 theories to discuss and analyze my topic 😭

@@lakhdarirofaida1522 I'm not on Facebook, but you're welcome to email me at [email protected] at any time. :) Does that work?

@Ryan Hitch yes sir it works thank you a lot I'll email you

Thank you! :) Isaac, students like you are why I try to do this. Keep achieving. I believe in you!

If I understand your question, it sounds like you're reading a story that you have to analyze with reader response theory (if I don't understand, feel free to comment with more detail--I am motivated to help you!). If that's right, then what you're trying to do is analyze how people react to the story. If it's a popular story that many people have written about, the easiest way might be to research the reactions those people have and analyze their responses. If it's not a popular story, then go on your gut for how you think readers would react. Keep in mind: it's not necessarily how "you'd" react. Think of readers here like the average person, not a specific person. For example, if you keep seeing the color red in a story, red is associated with love and passion, so you might say that this "encourages the reader to think about love and romance" and then, if the author is talking about two characters while using those colors, you might say, "the reader thinks about because of the colors, and this might cause the reader to wonder if the characters are in love." Does that help?

I'm really pleased to hear that! :) If you're interested in seeing any other videos in the future, feel free to leave a comment!

Happy to help! :) I really struggled with this before getting Tyson's "Critical Theory Today". Happy to share the knowledge!

Happy to help! :) I think sometimes teachers assume students know "the basics", so they skip them, and this happens. Glad we could fix that!

Woo! :) Glad to be of service!

Hi Hajer! Here's a good way to think about reader-response with film. In order to have a film, there has to be a screenplay. The actors read the screenplay to learn about their characters and their lines. The directors read the screenplay to learn the instructions for how the film should look. Those are already both examples of reader-response between the text (screenplay) and readers (people acting or directing). You can perform your own reader-response by (ideally) getting the screenplay and reading it, or if you can't, then you can do reader-response by pretending the film is a screenplay and thinking about it that way in your analysis.

Just remember to keep that distance between you and the film. Reader response is all about separating out "what the film is" vs. "your experience of the film". You may find it helpful to take notes while watching the film and have those two categories as columns. "What the film is" are just notes about what you saw in the film, and "your experience of the film" is how what you saw made you feel and what you think it means.

@@ryanhitch6350 I appreciate your help thank you sooo much 😭 i feel confusing because English not my mother language

@@hajeralqaseri8052 This is hard stuff for non-native English speakers! :( I sympathize with your situation. Please ask me any other questions you have as you work on this and I'll do my best to help you. I get notifications about your comments pretty quickly.

@@ryanhitch6350 Oh I don’t know how to thank you 🥺 we choose to apply this theory on Cruella movie! What I understood is to show my opinion and response , is it like writing an analysis essay?

Happy to help! : ) Make sure to check out the other video, and let me know if you have any questions or would like me to film a video on something else in the future.

I'm pleased to hear this helped! :) If you'd like another follow-up video on something, or additional resources, leave a comment and I'll get on that asap.

Thanks for letting me know! :)

Happy to help! :) If you need a good reference guide, check out this link: engl110bcrowe.commons.gc.cuny.edu/nortons-writing-a-literacy-narrative/ for specific info about literacy narratives. Also, if you have any more questions for me, let me know? I can answer them here; I can also make another video!

YES! I love that you didn't edit your 'uhs' or the ' want to get you, to know you'.

LOL! XP Thank you! I think it's important to be authentic in videos so you can "hear" me better when we message each other online. Text can be really alienating sometimes, but I type like I talk, and when you know how I talk, you know how I type. :) ... holy crap, that's about as bad as one of my explanations in my videos. Well, hopefully that makes sense!

Thank you! :3 I'll probably film another one soon-ish where I'm not so fat. If you've watched the others, you can see I've lost a lot of weight since this. But I feel like it captures my spirit really well, so I'm keeping it as my go-to one for now.

I'm happy to help! :) If there's ever something else you want explained, let me know! I try to put up 1 or 2 or 3 videos like this a week.

Thank you so much! :) I'm happy this helped someone!

Glad you enjoyed it!