This was helpful to me because I am thinking of putting together an online writing course. I have taught in a classroom and the feedback you get (if you’re on your toes) is immediate from your students’ faces, behavior. But online, I can see where putting out A WHOLE LOT of information at first, rather than letting that build, and making the exercises easy, but not too easy so that they’re insultingly so. So thanks.

The article gets a bit technical, and I’m not sure you defined “villain” (or named it appropriately) well enough before you dove into the places where they show up. That’s when I “got” what you meant by the term. Villain isn’t a very hip term — might look around for something more “now.” Just a suggestion.

Otherwise, you bring up excellent pitfalls in presentations online. Thank you.