The discussants basically riff on ideas that the original paper made them think of. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The workshops is set up with discussants giving prepared responses to each full paper presentation, and I love the format. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I think there's an elephant in the room that I think is getting largely talked around, and I think it's because to half of the discussants, it's so invisible they don't realize it exists, and to the other half, it's so enormous they can't understand how anybody could MISS it. ❋ Browngirl (2009)
In a month, another person improves on it. 23 people participate in the creation of the solution: 3 people wrote code; 1 reviewer; 2 testers; 17 discussants. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)
I apologize for not capturing the full dynamics of our discussion in this session - I was one of the discussants, and spent the discussion dodging extremely difficult questions about technological determinism. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is honestly a sort of straw creature that discussants use as an oppositional category to reify their own conception of a genre; it is a fairly empty signifier. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Different pattern when it comes to discussion: women represent 11% of Facebook page discussants; men make more posts, so the percentage of posts by women is lower. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)
The Admissions 101 family of discussants — we have been hashing out such stuff online for several years — tended to agree with me on this issue. ❋ Jay Mathews (2010)
“My goal here,” one discussant began, frankly befuddled, “is to critique the data just presented, to maintain some credibility in the field, and to continue to remain friends with both the presenters and the discussants.” ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
The president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology ASCO had asked a panel of discussants to try to hammer all the contradictory data into a single cohesive shape, but even the experts threw up their hands. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
I saw this play on Sunday January the 10th, and following the play served as one of the discussants for a conversation with the audience and the cast. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rising to this demanding task, committee chair Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, led a constructive conversation by asking pointed questions and periodically distilling the major points of contention and agreement among the various discussants. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Admissions 101 family of discussants - we have been hashing out such stuff online for several years - tended to agree with me on this issue. ❋ Jay Mathews (2010)
