Guidelines for responding to articles and article analyses
Everyone is expected to read all of the articles posted for this course and to respond by posting a "comment" under each of the article analyses. These should be clear, thoughtful responses showing evidence that you've read the article and the response. Types of comments that I'm looking are:
Everyone is expected to read all of the articles posted for this course and to respond by posting a "comment" under each of the article analyses. These should be clear, thoughtful responses showing evidence that you've read the article and the response. Types of comments that I'm looking are:
- Clarification. You can ask your colleague for clarification of a point that they make. This should take the form: “you could mean ‘x’ or ‘y’ when you say, ‘p.’ Can you clarify this for me?
- Argument. Example, “You assert ‘p’, but I don’t see any real argument for ‘p.’ Why do you think ‘p’?
- Objection. Example, “Look… you say ‘p’ and I read your argument. But I object to ‘p’ and suggest ‘q’. Here is why… x, y, z, etc. Can you comment?”
- Assistance. Example: “You know… I agree with ‘p’ but think your case would be strengthened by adding x,y,z, etc. to your list of arguments.”
- Competing Interpretation. Example: “I think you misinterpreted what author ‘a’ wrote. I think THIS is what he/she is saying…”
- Analogy suggestion. Example, “your argument for ‘p’ sounds a bit like this argument (‘q’). Do you think it helps to propose this analogy?