Week 8 Comments and Feedback

I have been a big fan of the commenting portion of this class. In general, the comments are really encouraging, and I think they help motivate many students to write interesting and unique stories. Personally, the comments have been very helpful because they have given guidance on where I can improve. 

On the other hand, I feel like many of the comments I give are not as "critiquing" as others. I have a hard time criticizing classmates' posts. Many of them are awesome stories that I can't find much to critique, and other times I just don't want to be discouraging to the writer. In general, I have been focusing on the positive, but occasionally I have thrown in some small critiques. It seems a bit foolish to speak about how the critiques are helpful, but then I don't like critiquing because I don't want to discourage classmates with a critique. 

For the blogs in particular, I do think it is helpful to comment on classmates' posts to create a sense of connection among classmates, but the connection is not super deep. To be fair, it is pretty impressive considering this is an online class. I'm not sure much more could be done to create connections, but I don't think its necessary either. The blog comments are very good as they are. 

I don't really want to make any changes to my posts for commenting purposes because the comments I have received are very helpful. However, I would like to change my commenting style toward classmates. My comments lack the critiquing aspect that I have found useful in comments on my posts. I'm hoping to add that element into my comments more often to be helpful to my classmates more than I have been. 

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