First, let me say something about the length of the comment. One decent paragraph should suffice. Your comments don't have to be as long as mine. One short sentence is not sufficient. I am not going to do a word minimum like with the blog posts themselves. I hope there enough here to address that concern.
Your big picture goal in offering up a comment is to help make the students next post better. I am not going to try to measure on delivery of that goal, but that is what you are aiming for.
Now some specific ideas on the content of your comment (Choose one.)
1. If you have a question about reading the post, pose the question along with some background about why it occurred to you. Implicitly you may be asking whether the question should have occurred to the post author ahead of time. In accord with the big picture goal, part of the blogging is to anticipate such questions ahead of time.
2. If you have had a similar experience you might write about that and then compare it to the experience that the post author describes. Did the author draw the same sort of conclusions as you had drawn for your experience? If not, why is that?
3. If you take issue with something the author wrote, that is fair game but please use a respectful tone when making your points. The goal is to produce better understand the situation, not for you to win the argument.
4. Anything else that occurs to you that fits - if I had written the piece what sort of comments would I want to be getting?
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