Assignment # 11 Effective Arguments

For my third essay I analyzed article “Get Smart About the College.” By reading this article gave me a helpful ideas to make my next arguing essay strong with included convincing evidences, background information or effective argument to appeal to reader’s emotion sides. 

This article gave for their position reasons included with evidence. But I think authors didn’t really use enough supported evidence. However, for my 4^th essay I know on what to concentrate and give as many convincing evidences as needed to support my arguing position. I also find out that it will give a good position to my essays to include necessary background information, so for reader should be clearly and easily understandable what was being argued. I believe article uses effective argument based on college financial sides to appeal to readers. However, audience for this essay most likely to be parents and it address mostly to parent because usually they pay for students education. So I see that it is important to bring emotional responses for readers for my next arguing positions paper. Overall, based on reading this article brought me a good idea and helped me on what specific details I should most focus for my next essay.  

Assignment # 10 peer review

When we asked to read two or three of our peer's essays it was more effective. We read our essays out loud, and then made comments what we thought was right or wrong. Also one interesting thing for a bigger group was that we all had same essay topics. And after discussing it, some un-understandable and unclear points became more reasonable to think about improving a paper. However, doing peer review in small group is okay too. Reading alone you make more accurate judgments. If you see other student’s mistakes it might be helpful for you not to make same mistake in your paper. 

My strength is to find in others writing statement of purpose, and if they don’t have one clear statement of purpose, I try to give an idea to look it over and make it clear because it is important part of essays. My weakness is I try not to be too mean and rude while making comments. We are not really close to each other to make very harsh comments. 

However, a peer review is interesting process. It might be helpful but I don’t consider it very helpful process.