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