Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Online Meeting Group Activity (due by the end of the class period on 9/27)

You will use the class time on September 27 to review and comment on your peers' blogs. In order to able to complete this activity:
*Make sure that the commenting feature on your blog is available for comments. Sign in to Blogger, go to Settings>Comments, and mark “anyone can comment” to make sure your peers will be able to post to your blog for this assignment.
*Make sure that the nickname you use on your blog includes an indication of your name and last name (see my blog nickname). We must be able to correctly identify who made the comments, when grading. Unidentifiable comments cannot be counted toward the final grade for the blog assignment.

For this activity, find your group below, and go to each one of your group members' individual blogs
(except yours, of courseJ). In each blog, review your peer’s response for Blog Post #4: Qualifying
Arguments.  Check the link to the text of their choice (newspaper editorial, online blog, another online
source, etc).  Make comments (one or two paragraphs or more) about your peer’s response in light of
your reading of Chapter #4. You are free to make any connections with the chapter concepts and 
comment accordingly. You might ask yourself and comment on questions, such as: Do you find their
identification of the qualifiers/rebuttals plausible? Can you identify any other rebuttals/qualifiers in the
argument? How would you identify the claim, evidence, and type of reasoning used in this text-- in  
your opinion, which arguments were effective and which were not? Which evidence was most
persuasive? Did any warrants work better than others? OR Which of the six types of argument is 
present? Which “type” of argument was most effective? Which type was least effective? Why?

***Comments are due on your classmates' blogs by 2:45 PM on Tuesday, Sep 27.  So, start reviewing and posting to the blogs by our usual class time (1:30 PM) at the latest.  Wait for about ten minutes or so, in case your peer might just be publishing their blog post for this activity— in the meanwhile, you may go to another blog assigned to you first, etc.  If you see that any of your peers has not made his/her blog post by the end of the class time, you will not be penalized for not making a comment on his/her incompleted assignment.

BLOG COMMENTARY GROUPS

Group 1:

Group 2: 
Group 3:

Group 4:

Group 8:

Group 9:
Group 10:

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