Comments

Comments have not seemed to be a problem in this blogging experience for me. On my descriptive essay I received 4 comments, they did not have to much constructive criticism in them, however they were comments. They all stated that they liked my paper and that they could relate, which is a good start. You can not expect perfection on any ones first attempt.

On this example essay I received 5 comments, all of them very helpful. Each comment stating the reason they could relate to my essay, each telling me specific elements of the essay that they really liked or appreciated, and each saying one small thing that I could change to help improve my essay. So for me, the posting and commenting has worked great.

Honestly, as much as I love seeing comments because it lets me know that people are actually reading and because it helps me improve my essay, it is not mandatory. For people to get so upset over not receiving comments is a little childish. We have to remember that this is a college course that we have the privilege of taking while we are still seniors in high school. It is part of one of the largest transitions in our lifetime, and for anyone to sour the experience just because of a few comments seems a little ridiculous in my opinion. I mean we have never been in a class in which we had this kind of opportunity of making our writing public, and open to public criticism, we always ran to our friends for peer review. No one says that we can not still do that. So personally I think that the griping needs to stop, this is not something that we need to get used to or expect throughout college. And we all must also remember we are all asking our teacher to be lenient about our grades because we are not keeping up with our blogs like we were asked; however when she asks us to be patient and understanding about the blogs and comments we continue to criticize her technique. Remember that this is the first time she has done this with a class as well, and we can not expect perfection from any ones first attempt.