ANiCO - A Late Review for King Kriggle, AKA Jordan

ANiCO - A Late Review for King Kriggle, AKA Jordan

I could have sworn I posted this last week, found that I didn’t, and realized I accidentally deleted the document where I originally wrote it up. Fantastic.

Well there isn’t much to criticize about Jordon’s posts. They are exactly what Dr. Cummings has asked for: A frequently-updated, timely-posted glimpse into the mind of one of her students. His posts are reflective, always presenting a new idea or example to relate and expand upon what we read and/or spoke about in-class, but never a tedious, word-for-word summary of what was discussed. Also, emotional: he genuinely speaks about how he reacted to the readings, never afraid to admit his confusions about the readings or just downright rejecting what a theorist says. I think a lot of students are afraid to do that because of the social stigma of “well I’m a student, I don’t know any better” and tend to invalidate themselves. In reality confusion and questions are best for propelling us forward towards our goals in understanding these crazy, crazy theorists.

If I had to have one nit-picky gripe about his posts, it would be he writes like he talks. It’s a nice identifier when he’s using an alias, but generally informal and kind of confusing if I’m trying to get a sense for what he’s trying to convey and there’s ideas scattered about and no thesis sentence to refer to. But this is probably a difference in how we view this blog: I look at it like a place to post up formal mini-arguments on what a theorists is saying or what forms of media could be applied to their theories. I look at Jordan’s posts and see something like a scholarly diary.