I particularly applaud everyone for really engaging with these complex texts and developing substantial questions and comments on the blog. I greatly enjoyed seeing your well-developed, thoroughly referenced, and responsive comments on the blog.
What I'd like to see more of in future weeks, however, are fewer epic blocks of text in the comments. Remember the national tragedy that ensued a few years ago that involved massive blocks of text?
No? Here's a cautionary snippet to give you a feel of the mass of such things:
So, I've got a few suggestions and resources to help both the main blog authors and the rest of the class commenters some ideas and resources to help pare things down and make them comments more manageable and effectively structured.
First, here's a great link to how to use simple HTML codes in your comments. This website has some very accessible and straight-forward explanations about how to make you text bold, italicized, or bulleted
- into
- a
- number
- of
- discrete
- points.
(I hope you all enjoyed how meta that became).
Second, I encourage you to also check out some other posts about how to write appropriate-length comments on blogs. Writing in this medium is different than writing traditional papers, even though we analyze texts, make arguments, evaluate sources, etc. in both media. Here are a few links I found that had some good advice:
- "How Long Are Your Paragraphs"
- "How to Write Addictively Readable Paragraphs"
- "The Ideal Length of Everything Online According to Science"
While this post has been primarily about paragraph length and breaking up your key ideas to make them more readable for your classmates and me, that last link included this infographic that I couldn't resist posting here:
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