Comment Rubric

REACTION COMMENTS

These will be assessed differently. Unlike blog posts, these pieces of writing are reactionary to the original thoughts of your classmates. Most importantly, you’ll have to make a complete, relevant reactionary comment to receive credit. This type of comment does one of three things:

• The comment affirms the initial blog post or preceding comment
• The comment qualifies the initial blog post or preceding comment.
• The comment challenges the initial blog post or preceding comment.

Each comment will not be considered complete unless, like a blog post, it includes all elements of analytic writing: a claim, evidence and analysis.

If you are affirming a comment you will use evidence that supports the original claim, but is different than the evidence provided by the author of the original blog, and will strengthen your argument. If you qualify a comment, you agree with the author, but only partly. Explain to what degree an author is right or wrong by providing new evidence to support your claim. If you challenge a comment, you disagree with the author and are arguing against their claim providing evidence to support yours.

Complete, relevant blogs will be awarded credit. In order to receive an A for the response portion of the unit, you will need to submit 5 responses to different members of the class. B=4; C=3; D=2.

Other comments that don’t necessarily meet the graded requirements are welcome, but they will not be considered for credit.