Example of a good blog post

This is a post by a student from a course that I taught last semester.  Look at it for an example of what I think is a good post.

 http://philo215fall2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/contra-mind-body-dualism-gw-leibniz.html

The main details are:

1. it states what it is going to do in the first sentence.  I.e., it has a thesis. The post will explain Leibniz' account of reality in the theory of monads and how this theory is a solution to the mind-body problem.
2. In the second paragraph he gets right into that theory of monads.  Now he uses a good quotation, but he does not explain that quotation (that is a shortcoming), but one can already see that it has something to do with the relation of souls/spirits/monads to bodies.
3. It explains the monad theory and especially the issue of pre-established harmony.
4. In the third paragraph he raises some questions.  He should try to answer these questions.  Instead, in the fourth paragraph he goes back to the other part of his thesis that has not been dealt with--the mind-body problem.

This is not a perfect blog post.  However, it is pretty good.

FYI.