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. What kinds of appeals--ethos, pathos, or logos--does the author use to convince his or her audience of this? Are these appeals effective? Suggest a way that the author might employ a different kind of appeal.
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.
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