Careful constructive comment placement

This post is a follow-up on the peer-to-peer commentary assignment that I made in class on June 6. That assignment, an on-going one, is to make constructive comments on your near-peers' essays.

By near-peers, for this week, I mean the next students down the Class Blogs list on the Writing Studio Wiki. In your comments you should:

1. Explain what interests you in your peers' writing;
2. Ask for more information related to the topics that your peers have chosen; &
3. Make suggestions that your peers can follow to improve their essays.
   

However, what you explain, ask and suggest may make little sense if you attach your comments to the wrong post.

So I'm writing to remind you about placement of comments on your classmates' and neighbors' blogs. Please make certain that you attach your comments carefully to the post about which you are commenting, rather than to some entirely different post up or down the time line from the post about which you intend to comment.

On two occasions recently, I have found comments on the Writing Studio Blog that I am certain were attached to the wrong post. I've just removed one such misplaced comment, and notified the author via gmail of the comment removal. I've also sent along a clipping of the comment, and encouraged the author to repost it in an appropriate spot.