Just a reminder: your follow-up post in which you comment on the blogs in your small group is due Tuesday by 11pm. We went over how to
link text of another website, and I'd like to see everyone give that a shot in this post.
There's a certain art to using other people's writing as springboards to our own ideas, especially on the Internet. It's very similar to the way that you were taught to use quote in ENGL 102. Here's the
three parts of a good post responding to another person's writing.
- Signal phrase
- Quote or Block Quote -- the original source text
- Commentary -- your ideas regarding the source text
One of my favorite bloggers, Ta-Nehisi Coates,
does a nice job in this post. Here's a visual of these three elements. Take a minute or two to see how he sets up his quote, block quotes it, then offers his take. Notice how he links the name of the writer to the source text--no wasted words or space. (Click on the picture below to see it in full size.)
Questions? Just post 'em in the comments.
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