Julie's Comments

Dear Emma,

First of all, what a great format to do the theory journal! This is exactly what blogging seems to do well, I think. And it presents it in an orderly and interesting fashion. I love that you are doing the journal this way! I especially love how classmates have responded by posting comments when we do the journal exchange. Very cool.

The challenge to the format though may be the time and space to think and develop thoughts more. Think about that as you are writing the blog posts - and think about coming back to them if necessary. For instance, one of the things that I think happens is some “space” gets filled virtually - the space on your laptop, or the “box” for the blog and we have the sense of being done, when in fact we may not have gone deep enough.

In this entry, for instance, http://emmastheoryjournal.blogspot.com/2015/02/sex.html

I think that you do go into enough depth on the articles. Where as this one, http://emmastheoryjournal.blogspot.com/2015/02/standpoint-epistemologies.html, seems to not have enough depth to it. They may in fact be the same length (you can look at that), but the one on Standpoint Epistemology, doesn’t seem to dive in as deeply to the material, which is dense and difficult to sort through.

I’m interested in seeing a bit more struggle in the journal. A bit more of YOUR active thinking about the process.

And some entries seem to be missing - Remember to go back and do them all! (And some sort of index may help me with the final submission).

Hope you are learning a lot from doing it!

Warmly,

Julie