Writing for the Web

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Task Navigation 

The medium is the message.


Choose your weapon of communication.

Research

Check out some other blogs that cover a similar subject area to you. Locate a blog post you disagree with.

Decide

Decide how you will respond. Will it be with a comment? A blog post of your own? 

Post

Go ahead and respond to the post. Post your response--in whatever form it takes--to this P2PU task, and your answers to the following questions:

  • How does your response differ from other ways of communicating (email, or text messaging).
  • What made you decide to respond in the way you did?

Task Discussion


  • Christopher Crawford said:

    I decided to focus on the most basic point that I disagreed with instead of a listicle refuting the original author's points. I also presented a third-party source to support my argument, while the original author stated facts but did not cite or link to any supporting data. Below is a link to my work for this task: 

    http://redclaytheology.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/saul-of-tarsus/

    on April 25, 2012, 9:22 p.m.

  • audrey said:

     

    Find something you disagree with on the Internet and respond:  Ha, I do that a lot.  Hell, I do that for a living.  
     
    But I rarely respond to stories that I disagree with with a comment.  I'm becoming less and less a fan of blog comments, frankly, although I recognize the importance of having discussions online and having a community respond to a particular piece of writing.  
     
    I don't want to dismiss the importance of commenting, but I believe that if you really have something substantive the best place to respond is on your own blog.  You can still link back to the piece that you're "commenting on" or responding to, of course (and you can too, I suppose, leave a comment that says "Hey, I responded at length elsewhere: LINK."
     
    That being said, I've found myself lately also responding via Twitter.  That is, rather than writing a blog post or leaving a comment, I tweet my thoughts in response.  I even went so far as to use Storify to gather one particular stream of Tweets (as well as others' responses) last week.
     
    on April 16, 2012, 1:26 p.m.