Read only the introduction paragraph of your partner’s essay. In your own words, explain. what you think the essay is about and the main

Read only the introduction paragraph of your partner’s essay. In your own words, explain. what you think the essay is about and the main

Learning Goal: I’m working on a economics question and need guidance to help me learn.

Questions

1. Read only the introduction paragraph of your partner’s essay. In your own words, explain

what you think the essay is about and the main argument the essay will make. Does the

author’s thesis statement clearly state what they will be arguing and why they think that

view is correct?

2. Read the rest of the essay. If you had no prior knowledge of their chosen thinker’s

argument, do you feel that you would understand their main beliefs? Do you think the

author devoted a proper amount of space to explaining the chosen intellectual’s views?

How could they have made their description more clear?

3. Now that you have context from the rest of the essay, do you feel that the introduction

effectively introduced the reader to the main ideas discussed in the rest of the essay? Is the

thesis consistently argued throughout the essay?

4. Identify the part of the essay that is the strongest defense of their thesis (can be a whole

paragraph or a specific example within a paragraph). Identify the part of the essay that is

the weakest defense of the thesis (or that is not useful to defending the thesis). Should the

author rework this section or delete it entirely?

5. Read the first sentence of each paragraph in the essay. Can you identify from the topic

sentence what each paragraph will be about? Does each paragraph have a clear purpose

in their paper?

6. Identify three sentences in the essay that you found either confusing/unclear and should be

reworded or that could be deleted without hurting the author’s argument.

7. Using the letter grade scale on the last page of the essay assignment, grade the author on

each of the four components and explain why you gave them that grade for each

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