Critiques and Revisions

Essay 3: Critiques and Revisions (15 points) Context: Our essays thus far have each involved analysis. In our first essay, you told a story and then (very) briefly assessed its audience and meaning. The second essay involved more specific identification, exemplification, and analysis for the sake of interpretation in film. For your final essay, you will have to analyze once more and then use your analysis as a means to help make one of your previous essays stronger. Assignment: This project will involve your completing two things:

● First, you will write a critique of your weaker essay, specifically addressing its strengths and weaknesses in how it 1) comes to terms with something, 2) forwards information, and 3) extends the issue (8 points).

● Then, you will ​revise the essay you’ve critiqued to be more effective and meaningful. 1

Both works will be submitted to the Essay 3 Submissions link (7 points). Requirements:

1. Choose only one of your previously written essays to critique and revise. 2. Be sure that your revised essay has a much stronger ​meaning ​than it did before. 3. Meet all original requirements for the assignment being revised 4. MLA page settings and citations

Tips:

● When writing the analysis, be sure to cite examples from the essay you are critiquing. Refer to yourself as the author and cite the page number you are taking examples from.

○ e.g. In “The Hook,” I incorporate alliteration to scare readers. One example is when I write “the sound of screeching and scraping nearly drowned out her screams” (2). The detail is scary enough, but by repeating the “s” sound, the words are more likely to get stuck in readers’ heads, so they perpetuate that feeling and fear of the act that accompanies the sound.

● Be fair and honest about your strengths and weaknesses in the essay you are critiquing. The goal is not to be overly positive or negative about your essay; instead, the goal is to learn more about yourself, your positive writing choices, and what can be improved upon.

1 To “edit” means to make corrections. Editing is the last step in writing any paper. You will also “edit” this final draft before submitting it. However, you will first ​revise​. To “revise” means to see ideas from a new perspective and to make significant changes to logic by adding or cutting major points of conversation, adding different perspectives, shifting the focus to a new issue, improving explanations, adding more detail, restructuring or reordering paragraphs, etc.