Write With RCS: Posting to, on, and about another blogger's posts. It's the Bloggers' Code.
In posting about another blogger's post I hope to do most of the following so as to look good and to have a positive effect on post readers, blogs, blogging, writing and humanity:
1. Provide a bit more evidence and documentation for my assertions than I have in the past.
2.List important references and bibliographic items.
3. Name my post or response in a way useful to the reader.
4. Name the author I am responding to.
5. Name the particular Writing of that author to which I am responding.
6. Give my response to the bloggers actual presentation.
7. Consider and evaluate the bloggers evidence.
8. Make my response appropriately clear and brief.
9. Quote the bloggers words in a way which captures the essences of her post.
10. Helpfully identify that to which I reply.
11. Help my readers to understand what I am writing about by identifying the essay, the happening, the question, the experience, the philosophy to which I an responding.
12. Provide information about the writer, translator, editor, compiler, witness.
13. Place my response and that which I am responding in historical context.
14. Provide some background for the main writer of the post.
15. Provide enough detail and example.
16. Make use of fair and useful quotes of the other blogger.
17. Make an estimate of the level of fact or truth of assertions I mention.
18. In making an argument provide convincing evidence.
19. Give the other blogger's evidence.
20. Evaluate how consistent the other blogger's evidence is with other sources l know.
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