NOT BAD!
This website wasn't too bad at all! Although I thought the first page was a bit long and had way too much detail. But I felt that the exercises were a whole lot easier than reading that first page! :o)
I did not like the formatting of the first page of the website. I tend to not like the way a page is formatted if everything is scrunched up together and the margin is unbelievably wide, because it tends to make the page look cluttered and like they didn’t take the time to make it look nice. Of course the content is more important than the look. But it just looks bad to me. They should have formatted it like a normal 8 ½ by 11 paper with a 1” margin or even a .5 margin all around. The font looked really old-fashioned, too. It probably sounds weird, but I’ve been formatting documents for most of my life and I notice IMMEDIATELY when someone forgot to right justify, or got lazy and didn’t care about the look of the paper. This website reminded me of that. Sorry!
WHAT I LOVED ABOUT THE WEBSITE
The exercises take you step-by-step and give you immediate feedback. It feels like you're taking a short quiz, but one that helps you gain more understanding as you go through each question. I love it! I mean I love immediate feedback because it lets you know if you're doing well or not. I also like the fact that you can go back and try again, if you didn't get it right the first time. The website was much quicker to get through than some chapters of the Epstein book.
P.S. I right justified this in Word only to have blogger undo it! Ugh! ;o)
HEY! We're on the same page when it comes to the design of the page. Even though the web design ultimately doesn't matter, it would just be more appealing as a student and I would probably be more inclined to read it if it were presented differently. Other than that, I totally agree with the step-by-step exercises and I really enjoyed the instant feedback, that way we can actually ingest what we analyzed incorrectly and shape the way we look at arguments for next time. It pretty much had all the information that the Epstein book had to offer, but it was more compact, internet-based, and a lot more efficient with the exercises.
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