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AnaCorrea-FirstPaper 9 - 19 Feb 2008 - Main.EbenMoglen
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New media has had a substantial impact on the way the presidential candidates choose to run their campaigns. | |
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- First, facing downward, as to form: It's silly to make footnotes in a wiki, most of the time. Everything you cite below is a link, for Heaven's sake: why don't you make them live links in the text? Second, facing upward, as to substance: You have here a pretty good summary of material found elsewhere and accurately summarized. But as your conclusion shows, there's nothing new here by way of an idea contributed out of your rumination. The conclusion, which is a truism, would have been acceded to by any informed observer. Questions by the dozens might be asked on the back of the information you compiled, however, and any one of them might have led you in a direction that required you to formulate new conceptions. It's that process--the formulation of new legal conceptions out of the material of observed social life--that we are studying in this course. Our question, generically, is always "How can I use what I can observe about social life--and what I have learned about varieties of social explanation--to formulate new questions about law and, by answering or attempting to answer those questions, to create new legal ideas?" Here you assembled some social observations. That was a good first step. But the second step, in which you pressed to formulate something new out of the previously-known, didn't really happen. Another draft, with a clearly-defined new objective, making use of the data collected, is probably necessary.
| | | [1] Mancour, Terry. User-generated candidate. Guardian Unlimited. February 7, 2008.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/terry_mancour/2008/02/user_generated_candidate.html |
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