Hello Matt, I agree balance is key. I try to support my rhetorical aims with A well constructed logical argument. I agree it is difficult To discuss concepts when others have their own agenda. In this area the essay is superior in establishing a complete concept.
I personally have not yet reached the cap in the MD. Perhaps It's due to fact that I am a personage of few words. I am so Direct at points that I believe it makes what I have to say Hard to follow sometimes. Matt: The point is--writing a good post is (maybe: _can be_) much different than writing a good essay. If a person thinks otherwise--I wonder if we perhaps have different processes for writing. Because in a post, you are responding to a person in real time (for the most part). In an essay, there is no conversation partner--you have to, pretty much, do all of the talking. In the MD, you get to take a pause, bounce off of other's, catch your breath, _breathe_. In an essay, you gotta' deliver it all--on this analogy--in one breath, by yourself: so you better know what you're saying ahead of time. Ron: I tend to create a thread with an essay then discuss it dialectically To see if it holds up to scrutiny. Test the structure of my argument. Sometimes this works well. Matt: p.s. Ya' know, I didn't plan on that--sometimes it amazes me how everything I start turns into a thing about Plato. _________________________________________________________________ Ron: Difficult not to. Especially with the subject matter. I would love to delve into this aspect further if you are open to it. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
