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Evangeline, I thought your tags and the question you posed for the class were very well done. That being said, most of your post was right on the brink of being the kind of analysis that I’m looking...
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Melanie, excellent first blog post. Don’t doubt yourself! If you can make an argument with quotes from the text, then you most likely did not misread the piece. You did a great job giving textual...
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Marisa, the majority of your blog post was great. It focused on a concise topic, analyzed the text beyond the surface level, and engaged with the text multiple times. For next time, just keep in mind...
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James, good first blog post. You analyzed the essay and backed your main points up with textual arguments. However, you don’t need so much summary at the beginning. You also forgot to add tags to the...
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Jahqwahn, your post reflects the effort you put into analyzing the piece. You offer a lot of great arguments and back them up with textual evidence. Also you did an excellent job on tags. My advice for...
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Adam, good jobs with the main points of the blog post (i.e. tags, title, analysis of post). I think in the future if you wanted to keep a tighter focus on the topic of your post then that could help...
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Emma, good improvement on tags and the title of your post. However, the majority of your blog post seemed to be a summation of the two texts rather than an analysis of them. Also, for next time, please...
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Allison, while you chose a great passage to close read, I felt that you didn’t really analyze it as closely as you could have. I think a longer analysis would give your post more depth, as well as help...
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Connor, I wasn’t really sure what the focus of your blog post was. It went off in two different directions without providing much textual evidence for either point. (1) In reply to - Connor Ferreri...
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Hung, I think that Baldwin has a good idea on who he is as a person, the problem is more that a white supremacist world doesn’t recognize or make space for his complexity. Overall, your post seemed...
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Isaiah, this post is a great improvement. I would say, however, that you should stay away from outside topics, like the American Revolution, and mainly focus on the text unless you are using the...
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Logan, you provided good textual analysis for your argument, but I wonder if you missed part of the point that Baldwin was trying to make. Instead of drawing a clean line between the small town and the...
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Sam, you got too caught up in the politics of the essay rather than the mechanics of it. In what ways did the author portray the political message she was trying to argue for? What stories did she...
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This is great, Marisa! You have written a great analysis. I think your closing remarks and question are especially well done. (3) In reply to - mquiery16 wrote a new post, Using Motherhood to Convey...
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Melissa, your analysis really illustrated your attentive reading and understanding of the deeper mechanics in the essay. My only critique would be to next time have a title that captures the specific...
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Grant, I think you got too caught up in the politics of the essay, rather than the ways in which the essay is written. Instead of analyzing the societal problems that the author is writing about, try...
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Excellent post, Melanie! You did a great job connecting the two texts together and integrating quotes from both essays to support your argument. Try to bring up some of your points in class because...
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Evangeline, overall your post is good. However, the beginning portion of it borders more on summation than analysis. The second half is a much more analytical than former, yet I think you could have...
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Jinzhe, you have the right idea on what a post should be about, but you need to add more textual evidence and analysis of that textual evidence for future posts. Also go into a post having an argument...
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