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December 12, 2011

Playing with language, achieving flow

Here’s where your Google Reader really pays off! On a Sunday night before class you get to survey the posts of your classmates and see how they have done things in new, different ways and so profit from them! In this post I’ll suggest how many have gotten one or more slices of the pizza!

Asking great questions

Nico’s Raising a fund! starts with a great question — “follow the money” – the question that lead to Deep Throat, Watergate, and the fall of the Nixon presidency. I also very much like the detailed report, it’s done well!

To this first, important step, we are adding another: the comparative method we’ve been talking about, where we survey different kinds of answers, view them comparatively and critically, and evaluate their differences.

Without the posing of questions, survey, and evaluation, we are given little to go on: we have no idea of where any of this comes from, why this evidence and not some other is being considered, nor argument and an idea of where it is all leading. So, great start, Nico!

So, here’s my method, too: compare what you’ve done to the standard (and explicit assignment) advice, recognize solid steps, and suggest what might come next. Read more

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