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New Summary Procedures

As I said in class today, I think it'd be more effective to replace our the earlier written summaries with blog discussion. So here's what I'd like to do for now.

As before, for each paper that we're going to discuss, I'll assign someone as "primary" discussant. That person is responsible for posting a new blog entry discussing the paper. The content of this is the same as before -- briefly summarise the most salient points (the most salient points of the paper may be different than the most salient points for our purposes) and especially the insights that you gained from it and the questions that it either raises for our discussions or leaves unanswered. Ideally, that would get posted before the next class.

Everyone is required to post at least one comment per class session... more than one is, of course, welcome. In comments, you may get the advantage that you get to point out commonalities or contradictions between different perspectives. I hope that these exchanges will help support our discussions in class.