Question:
“I'm a little confused about how to respond to another students post. Am I just supposed to talk about his post in general or am I supposed to relate it to my piece in some way? I can see the latter being somewhat difficult in doing since topics can range in many different ways, in this case permafrost technicalities and toxin release into soils.”
Response:
Your question is a reasonable one. What we hope you could do is identify some commonality between the post to which you reply (and several others ideally) and what you’ve read, even if it’s saying something like “while xxxx’s post dealt with soils in the arctic, my own readings addressed soils in temperate zones……”
Our intent in having you read other student’s posts is to get an exposure to the many aspects of the topic for the week. We also hope that you’ll seek out the commonalities, or even contrasts.
We’ll accept, ultimately, a statement that you read posts by X, Y, & Z and could not find any links between what they addressed and your topic. In that case I’d expect a short explanation of why you think that’s the case.
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