Essay critique
Hi, No sources required. You are simply reading and critiquing 2 essays. Please use the guidelines below to critique these essays.
NOTE; please answer each of the following questions for each essay during the reviews.
Essays will be attached. Both reviews can go in one single docx. attachment, It simply needs to be indicated in a topic form as to which essay you are critiquing. You can simply use the actual essay topic. This is a 2-page paper. Each page can represent each essay critique.
Timeliness
How does the author convey a sense of the topic’s importance?
Based on what you read, why should readers care about this feature topic? Remember, this is NOT a report. We cannot be satisfied with the when, what, who, where – we need the why, how, or the so what?
What is the author’s perspective/angle on the subject?
What, as a reader, do you still want to know?
Factual information
Do sources and facts in this feature article answer the questions who, what, when, where, and sometimes how regarding the topic.
Where can the author use sources to help to expand or support a certain section?
What facts (logos) might better establish the author’s ethos as well as make his/her essay more persuasive and credible?
What, as a reader, do you still want to know?
If the author has provided source information, is there a good balance between the author’s own ideas and the source material?
Does the author make it clear that source material has, in fact, come from a source besides them?
How might the author better incorporate facts or details? (Remember that referential, in-text citations establish credibility (ethos) for an essay: “According to [source name]….”)
Ethos, Pathos, and Detail
As a reader, does the author make you feel like the topic is important?
Where can the author incorporate vivid details, narrative, metaphor, and so on?
Can the author integrate some personal anecdotes to give readers a sense of who the author is and why he/she is interested in this article’s topic?
Thesis, Purpose, and Development
What is the author’s point?
How might the author develop a clearer purpose?
How might the author develop a clearer structure? Where does the author need stronger transitions?
Where does the author need more development of ideas?
Interest Angle
How could the author make the title of the essay “catchy” to highlight the topic of the essay and grab the reader’s attention?
How can the author begin his/her essay to make the importance of the topic more noticeable and the introduction more attention-grabbing? (Consider an interesting observation or idea, catchy, cropped sentences (even fragments) with descriptive active, action verbs (avoid passive voice), rhetorical questions indicating the need for exploration, or shocking/intriguing narrative and/or statistical findings).
How can the author use language and structure to grab the reader’s attention?
