Critiques and Revisions Essay

Essay 3: Critiques and Revisions (25 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. 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 essay 1 or essay 2’s rhetoric strengths and weaknesses. This critique will be posted to Discussion Board 9.

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

The revision will be submitted to the Essay 3 Submissions link. 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. MLA page settings and citations

Tips:

● As you did for essay 2, continue practicing your “source sandwiching.” ● When citing 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 well to scare readers. One example

of alliteration 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 made my work more effective.

● 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 a paper. You are being asked to “revise,” which means to see ideas from a new perspective and to make significant changes to logic by adding or cutting major points, improving explanations, changing organization, adding more detail, etc.