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Sample Document: 3 NowComment Usage Tips
Author: NowComment Information Desk
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1. Different Topics, Different Conversations
There can be multiple conversations going on about any sentence, paragraph, image, or video, so each conversation can stay on-topic. New topic? Start a new conversation! For example, when I mention Thanksgiving here, note the separate history and food conversations.
According to the National Turkey Federation:
“In 2010, more than 244 million turkeys were raised. More than 226 million were consumed in the United States. We estimate that 46 million of those turkeys were eaten at Thanksgiving…”
http://www.eatturkey.com/consumer/history/history.html
You may also want to read this:
http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/Top-10-Reasons-Not-to-Eat-Turkeys.aspx
• Argentina: Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia
• Barbados: Crop over:
• China: August Moon (mid-Autumn) Festival
• Germany: Erntedank
• Ghana: Homowo Festival
• India: Pongal
• Japan: Niiname-sai, Shinjo-sai
• Jewish: Sukkot
• Korea: Chu-Sok
• Mehregan: Iran
• Nigeria: Ikore
• Poland: Doynki
• Turkmenista: Hasyl toy
• Vietnam: Tết Trung Thu
“On October 3, 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789 as an official holiday of “sincere and humble thanks” (for victory in the Revolutionary War and for the new Constitution). From the National Archives website:
http://blogs.archives.gov/prologue/?p=2591
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’On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln made the traditional Thanksgiving celebration a nationwide holiday to be commemorated each year on the fourth Thursday of November. In the midst of a bloody Civil War, President Lincoln issued a Presidential Proclamation in which he enumerated the blessings of the American people and called upon his countrymen to "set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of “Thanksgiving.”’
- To join an existing conversation, just click a “reply” link.
- To start a new conversation, just double click whatever you want to comment on (or the paragraph number for videos).
2. Write an Expressive "Summary of Comment"
Somewhat like an email subject line, NowComment comments have a Summary of Comment field ("Summary") that provides a quick overview of your basic point(s). If everything you want to say fits in the Summary that’s fine… but usually you’ll want to provide some examples or details, explore alternatives, identify implications, etc. Put these elaborations into the optional “Full Comment” field.
Unlike email, don’t keep the same Summary when replying; it's there for you to notify the group of your main points. The comments on this amazing painting show how it’s done:
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Per Wikipedia:
“In June 1816, the French frigate Méduse departed from Rochefort, bound for the Senegalese port of Saint-Louis. She headed a convoy of three other ships…it ran aground on a sandbank off the West African coast, near today’s Mauritania. The collision was widely blamed on the incompetence of De Chaumereys, a returned émigré who lacked experience and ability, but had been granted his commission as a result of an act of political preferment.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
In fact, the king didn’t have a say in the captain’s appointment.
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147 people started out on the raft but only 15 (10%) survived the 13 days of starvation, dehydration, cannibalism, and madness.
That Wikipedia article says that Géricault spent a lot of time on research, including how to render the flesh tones of dead bodies; I’m surprised he drew the survivors as he did.
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To comment on a particular segment of a video, put the start and end times at the beginning of the Summary, as shown in this chocolate mystery:
UVA Prof. Robyn Kondrad teaches a class studying how children learn to lie. She says it’s actually a difficult cognitive task for a kid to learn to keep in mind what Mom knows, what she expects you to have done, what evidence might compromise your position, etc. etc.
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1. Kiss the camera as a diversion
2. Run away!!
3. Things You Don’t Need to Do
- write your name or the paragraph# —the system adds both automatically.
- say that you’re replying to a certain comment —your comment will be automatically indented below the other one to show the connection.
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