Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Responding to your peers' blogs
For Fri, March 18 (by noon), I would like you to respond to at least one of your peers' blogs by adding a comment directly on their site. What am I looking for in your response? My main qualification is that the response should be substantial. By that, I mean you can't say just say, "Hey, that's a great argument! I'm also a big fan of Britney Spears." That's totally lame. Instead, I'd like you to do at least one of several things:
-Give an additional point to support the person's argument.
-Give a counterargument that the person didn't address in the original post.
-Provide a parallel argument about something else. For instance, if someone is arguing that Britney Spears rocks because she knows how to be sensational in the media, you can claim in parallel that handling the media might be the most important qualification of pop stardom and describe why this might be.
-Provide an analysis of why the argument the person makes is well done, or how it could be done better. For instance, "you established your ethos well when you revealed that you were once a backup dancer for Britney," or "perhaps mentioning your experience as a backup dancer should be foregrounded in your argument because it's a stronger point than your gneral appreciation of bellybutton piercing."
Here are some examples of good responses from last semester: on day care, on prison reform, on relationships and waiting by the phone (also check out the response to the relationship argument here)--you get the idea.
Each response should be at least a paragraph long, and by that I mean at least 5 sentences or so, but it could certainly be more. Notice that the ones I chose above were all pretty substantial in length and breadth.
Remember that you only get extra points from pairs of responses...So if someone responds to your blog, then you should reply to them on your blog in order to get that extra point. Check back on your blog on Friday, after everyone will have posted. I'll give you until next Monday (Mar 21) to respond to responses on your blogs.
Let me know if you have questions.
-Annette
-Give an additional point to support the person's argument.
-Give a counterargument that the person didn't address in the original post.
-Provide a parallel argument about something else. For instance, if someone is arguing that Britney Spears rocks because she knows how to be sensational in the media, you can claim in parallel that handling the media might be the most important qualification of pop stardom and describe why this might be.
-Provide an analysis of why the argument the person makes is well done, or how it could be done better. For instance, "you established your ethos well when you revealed that you were once a backup dancer for Britney," or "perhaps mentioning your experience as a backup dancer should be foregrounded in your argument because it's a stronger point than your gneral appreciation of bellybutton piercing."
Here are some examples of good responses from last semester: on day care, on prison reform, on relationships and waiting by the phone (also check out the response to the relationship argument here)--you get the idea.
Each response should be at least a paragraph long, and by that I mean at least 5 sentences or so, but it could certainly be more. Notice that the ones I chose above were all pretty substantial in length and breadth.
Remember that you only get extra points from pairs of responses...So if someone responds to your blog, then you should reply to them on your blog in order to get that extra point. Check back on your blog on Friday, after everyone will have posted. I'll give you until next Monday (Mar 21) to respond to responses on your blogs.
Let me know if you have questions.
-Annette
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