Blog Three: ENG 260 Comment

For this assignment you will offer your perspective to LaGuardia English 260 students. To do so, first read over their assignments, HERE and HERE. Then click on your name below. Follow the instructions provided. Your main goal is to offer an overall evaluation of the blog, communicate what you believe to be the main ideas in their writing, and to provide helpful constructive criticism for their revision process.

To Leave a Comment

Press the "No Comments" or "Comments" link at the end of their blog entry.
Consider pasting your response from Microsoft Word, or simply write in the box.
Fill out the web-bot verification boxes.

Must You Leave Feedback on Both Blogs?

Yes.

What if someone else has already left a comment?


Leave your own anyway.


Blog Comment Directions (from the text Tutoring Writing)

1. Open a general statement of assessment about the blog's relationship to the assignment. Be clear about which parts fulfill the assignment and which parts need improvement.
2. Present comments so the writer knows which problems with text are most important and which are of lesser importance.
3. Use comments primarily to call attention to strengths and weaknesses in the piece, and be clear about the precise points where they occur.
4. Don't feel obligated to do all the 'fixing.' Refrain from focusing on grammar unless it impedes your ability to understand the piece.
5. Write comments that are text-specific, and uniquely aimed at the blog and the writer.

Strategies

1. Pose at least two questions that ask for clarification or that seek other possible views or more information on the subject.
2. Let the writer know what specific lines, ideas, and stylistic touches you find pleasing.
3. When you make a specific, concrete suggestion for improvement, try couching it in a qualifier: "You might try..." or "Why don't you add..." or "Another way of writing the lead might be..."
4. If you notice a pattern of errors (incorrect use of commas, etc) comment on it in a global way at the end of the piece.

Names (Link One to Blog 1, Link Two to Blog 2)

Arlette/Arlette (second blog, different student)
Debbie/Debbie
Rougie/Rougie
Mohammed/Mohammed (second blog, different student)
Hans/Hans
Bianca/Bianca
Margeline/Margeline(second blog, dif student)
Ashely/Ashely
Abel/Abel
Nabba/Nabba
Magda/Magda
Ellen/Ellen
Natalia/Natalia
Julie/Julie
Nick/Nick
Elvia/Elvia
Brittany/Brittany
Kimon/Kimon
Agnieszka/Agnieszka