Removing comments also affects the reading experience itself: it may take away the motivation to engage with a topic more deeply, and to share it with a wider group of readers.
Rather than engaging with a topic that is keenly discussed among self-identified "reform conservatives," he fell back on G.O.P. boilerplate: bashing the government and raising the spectre of mass welfare dependency.
Engage with a topic you've dismissed before.
Through art, you can create a truly inspired conversation and debate that forces us to engage with a topic.
Selfiecity provides both an academic and highly playful way to engage with a topic that has captured the attention of countless people throughout the world. .
They've been required to write opinion pieces and blog posts, to name and begin a regular feature, and to engage with a topic that is beyond their comfort zone.
These assignments 1) spread out the time students spend on the course throughout the quarter (distributed practice, rather than cramming just before exams) and 2) encourage students to engage with a topic before class (preparatory assignment) and then again in class (in-class activities) and again after class (review assignments).
When Fire at Sea showed, early in the festival, it had the look and smell of a Berlinale winner: it was a film both deeply socially engaged with a key topic of our time – the human cost of the flood of migrants attempting the desperately risky journey across the Mediterranean – and one with a distinctive, humane cinematic style.
Online communities are formed around drawing connections, and one can do so by taking advantage of many different forms of media: books, websites, Twitter, and blogs all are different platforms with which people can engage in a topic, and the discussion frequently crosses over from one to the other.
Professor Elsner's research engages with the topic of reception in various contexts, from ancient ritual and pilgrimage to literary description and modern collecting and historiography.
