One thing I noticed--not just in the most recent series of blog posts--is that many of you end up citing the same sentence from the same essay. While at times it seems the case that such a particular sentence just screams to be cited (because it's so clear and/or good), as is the case with the quote many of you used from the Elsaesser piece, as a reader one wonders about whether or not you actually read the essay or whether you only saw this one quote in someone else's post and appropriated it. Especially if you post relatively late in the game you do want to make sure to counter-act such an impression... for example, it would behold you to work a bit more with the quotation or the passage surrounding it in the original text; or, of course, you could quote a different passage altogether: surely, E's text does't have just one point worth citing.
Put differently, from now on, I will not give you credit for having worked with an assigned reading if you end up citing the very same sentence that a number of students already cited previously--unless, that is, you do the work to make sure that it's clear to your audience that you are genuinely working with the text and thus also adding to the ongoing blog conversation rather than just repeating what's already been said more than once.
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