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I think that this approach offers a better display of ideas and point of views than say a single person doing that for each chapter, and also that the work is inmense, also it would make the persons more involved because they would have to research in order to make good intros into the discussion in the chapters.
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Maedhros' example is about how my thoughts run as well. I agree completely about having a different person intro each chapter, or at least spacing out the chapters introduced by the same person. The structure of the intro post for each chapter in my experience was more a summary, then analysis, then favorite parts, but I also like Maedhros' structure of adding the burning questions posed by the particular passages. The thing that distinguished the initial poster of each chapter was that their summary, etc. followed a pre-determined structure, but the content was determined by the material. The following posts could address any point in the first post or go off on any question posed at any time by a subsequent poster on the chapter's points, or bring up new points not explored by the initial poster. I think it worked pretty well, however, it did take over a week for each new person to prepare his or her initial post, as it did take more or less an essay form and was well thought out. For this reason, I think it would be better to assign a different initial poster on each chapter, just for the sake of speed, so the entire forum is not waiting on one poor overworked moderator to come up with the next chapter's intro. Just my thoughts.
Cheers!
Lyta