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[jtothecapitalc]

I am going to post this here before i make it as my first post to the English department's blog. Your feedback is appreciated

Comments

[blushing_grace]

Typo - Student #1 presents a more troubling problem. Where Student #2 just wanted to make inappropriate jokes, Student #2 appears to have some real malice towards gay people.

You intended #1 there.

[stori_lundi]

And when in doubt, correct their grammar as well. ;)

But seriously, I think you made good points and presented the issues as English issues, not opinion-based ones.

I'd also think that something a little less heated would have been a better topic to use to teach debate, especially in your area.

[little_carrot]

I don't know how formal your departmental blog is, I think I might drop the line about spear polishing (however true it is), depending on the level of formality you are aiming for.

Also, I think you have an extraneous comma: Principles that we already teach in a standard ENG111 class, actually cover the issues that these offensive posts raise.. In this sentence, the comma after class seems unnecessary.

[babylonthegreat]

Well, if the students' assignment was to blog then I think they did an A+ job. I see blogging akin to writing in a diary. It's not really journalism or literature (unless you're Anne Frank and have a decent supply of Nazis on hand) so treating it like that seems to me like all those diseased, gay men in heterosexual marriages that I know.

I guess I just find it weird that an English department is teaching blogging. If it's simply to increase the students' writing time in a way that's fun to them, then I guess content isn't really important. If they're treating this like journalism then yeah, even editorials need to provide some kind of facts to back them up or else the author isn't going to be writing for long in any sort of reputable publication.

[taraflutterby]

Not useful to your actual questions, but I believe that student #1s concern is that, once gay marriage is approved, all the gay men who are already "undercover" will flee their "sham" marriages leaving thousands of now single mothers with millions of kids.