Over the semester you will need to write 8 comments on blog posts by your colleagues (you choose). The blog comments will need to be around 100 words in length and should offer substantive responses to the post. Non-substantive blog comments will not be given full credit.
You may want to ask questions about the author’s post, asking about something overlooked or imprecisely articulated. You may want to correct or amplify a point the author made. You may want to extend the author’s line of thinking.
You should only comment on posts from that period. In other words, not from posts that we have not recently discussed. You may not write your 8 blog posts early.
The due dates for the comments are:
Sep. 9thSep. 23rdOct. 7thOct. 21stNov. 4thNov. 25thDec. 9thDec. 14th
You are welcome to write more than 8 blog comments. Please do not wait until the due date to make a comment. You will not get extra credit on additional comments (although it may reflect favorably on your participation grade, especially if you are not talkative in class), but writing these comments will significantly help you later on when you write the essay assignments. In this respect, you do receive extra credit from writing additional comments.
