Nick writes: > Larding is the > practice of distributing ones response in the text.
Larding is not a problem, it is best practice (in my highly considered opinion): it simulates (somewhat) a naturally structured conversation, between or among a group of people, on one topic or several related topics; the most common alternative, attaching an entire response- post to the entire stimulus-post, doesn't simulate conversation--it simulates a pair (or more) of windbags lecturing to each other in sequence, or (essentially equivalently) the dreary academic custom (in some fields, notably the humanities) of having "respondents" read aloud, one after another, pre-written papers about the respondee's just-previously read-aloud paper. Now, hypertextual tools *might* improve larding. I would have to see them well-implemented to form a considered opinion. (My unconsidered opinion is that they'd be a net negative.) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
