Online Forums: Responding Thoughtfully
Some instructors assign weekly or biweekly discussion board posts or other regular informal writing assignments, and oftentimes they require you to respond to your peers’ writing. Responding to your classmates can be an awkward or uncomfortable task because you might not want to offend them or say something silly.
As a result of this pervasive discomfort, students often just respond to a post in one of the following ways: