Begin by composing a retrospective outline of your partner's
paper, using the outline we composed of the Huckleberry Finn paper as a
model. Once you have completed the outline, examine it for coherence,
repetition, orderly logic and transitions, and whether it fulfills the demands
of the prompt. Suggest any changes that you believe would improve the paper's
sense of organization.
After you're finished, answer the following questions at the
bottom of the draft:
1. Briefly describe the current draft's organizing
principle. Could the information be organized in another way? Suggest a
different organizing principle that would change the draft radically while
still making sense, and revise the thesis statement to reflect this new
organizing principle.
2. The prompt asks you to make the argument that the
information summarized is relevant or interesting to your blog's audience. How
does the author do this? Is the strategy effective? Suggest another way in
which the author might have related the information summarized to his or her
audience.
3. Describe the draft's introduction, concentrating on the
first sentence. How does the author attempt to "hook" the reader?
Does s/he begin by telling the reader something she doesn't know? If not, scan
the body of the draft and/or the original article for an interesting fact that
the author could place at the beginning of the essay.
