DUE TUE 4/17 - Best Blog Comments
Review the comments that classmates have made on your blog and choose two or three of them that you found particularly helpful. Write a short paragraph for each one explaining why it was helpful. Be specific. What is helpful about it and why?
The most important criteria for a helpful comment is that it is specific. It does not just say that something is “good” or “bad.” It provides an example and an explanation.
- provides suggestions and/or praise regarding writing mechanics and style
- provides suggestions and/or praise regarding content
- provides a different perspective that makes you rethink your ideas
- provides evidence or logic that affirms what you are saying or questions it
Of course, if something was helpful for you in a way that I don’t list above you can write about that.
To turn this in and get credit: You need to turn in a hardcopy with a heading. Copy/Paste your original post along with the comment and your explanation. Make sure everything is labled so that I know what is what and who it's written by.
3 comments:
SO for the last part, do we actually have to find the person who put the coment that they said on our blog, and put it on their blog!
J.V. , yes that is what you should do. Just post your paragraph on their blog.
Hey Mr. Jana, I think one of your comments helped me (I don't really know why no one else has picked one of you comments to 'reply' to. Also i cant figure out why u removed it from the commenting section)
What u wrote:
Wow! This is quite powerful stuff Michael. You asked me how you could improve it, and I'm not sure how to respond to that. I think you use adjectives to great effect here, as when you write, "I swallow the white wash that the vast wave had left, like the black ashes from a once raging fire." In this sentence I like the contrast in comparing the strength of water to the destructiveness of fire. One thing, I can say, is that it does not have any build up. It starts right away with the character (you) about to get pounded by the wave. That is not a bad thing, but if you wanted to experiment you might want to try to build it up a bit, like how the character would feel seeing this big wave approaching from the distance.
What I replied with:
This helped me realize a few things. The first thing it helped me realize was that using descriptive contrasts between things grabs the readers attention and adds a great affect to your work. It also helped me by saying to add a build up in the beginning. When I read that I though back to other books that I have read and remembered how that did help indulge me in to reading the book further.
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