Since we have so few essays submitted this week (I’m so discouraged), I’ll go ahead and select this week’s compilers/consolidators now — in bf below.
Chad P. pro
John con
Here’s how this will work: Each week two students, on opposites sides of the pro/con position paper assignment, will be asked to re-evaluate their essays in consideration of all other essays posted as well as all comments others have left concerning those essays.
These two students will then each submit a revised essay — posted to their respective blogs — that will incorporate (one would hope) some of the better ideas in the previously submitted essays and comments. This revised, summary essay should be posted no later than Friday noon.
Since there are, at the moment, so few additional ideas/posts/comments available to work with (I see only my own), this may be a less involved task this week than in coming weeks when, hopefully, the kinks of working with the tools I have asked you to work with are overcome.
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Also, please note that if the interactive component of our class remains missing in action, I may well choose to up the requirements of the non-interactive portion: i.e., if we cannot generate a useful and active discussion on each of our weekly topics, I may require longer and more detailed individual weekly essays from each of you.
I’m so discouraged.
