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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Peer Evaluation: John Kendrick

I have been looking over John Kendrick's blog.  His focus is on Shakespeare's influence on the literary cannon, specifically his influence on Faulkner. 

Posts:
  • Quantity: There seem to be a good amount of posts (34). 

     
  • Content: Good analysis, although I might suggest putting more depth/time into a few blogs.  Some of the content in your blogs seems disjointed, see if you can connect the different ideas to make a cohesive whole both within individual blogs and using the blogs as a whole to support your argument.  

  • Format: The titles are all have something to do with Faulkner, they will mention his name or his works, but they could be more specific - like in"The Lighted Fools of The Sound and The Fury," you could perhaps preface it with Faulkner and Shakespeare, and then put your title.
     
  • Good use of jump breaks.

Research:
  • Thematic Focus:  Nicely developing theme. 

  • Thesis & Cohesion:  good use of linking to connect different posts to the thesis statement.
  • Sources used in posts could be listed more obviously, and adding page numbers would be useful where applicable


Personal & Social:
  • Author identity: Personality in the blogs - I might suggest trying to separate the blogs in which you are listing info on what you are planning to do and accomplishing, and the blogs where you analyze Shakespeare. 

  • Documentation of Process:  Good job on documentation of your blog theme's 'evolution'


Design:
  • Appropriate to Theme: Great design on the blog.  - if you put a few pictures on your blogs that might help to brighten it up a little and make the blogs look more interesting  

  • Side content: seems good, I didn't find it distracting, or wanting.