Peer Responses: project 1 rough draft

Ashley Currie

In your paper you talk about the chapters in the book that tell you what is a ‘good’ argument and what is a ‘bad’ argument. I like that you put that in there because it tells your readers what you are using to make judgments on the article. You tell the readers about the chapters but not a lot about the article that you are writing about. It would help your readers for if you were to write a quick summery of the article, to give the readers an idea of what the subject of your writing is going to be about and then diverge off from that throughout your paper as you did. In your writing you quoted the author and you also talked about how the author fell into fallacies to prove a point. Expanding on what type of fallacy the author used like “Red herring” or “slippery slope” fallacies. By talking about what the fallacy is and how the author is using it will strengthen your argument.


Shelby Jackson

I really enjoyed reading through your paper. You talked about the chapters in the book that you are basing your judgment on and you are quoting a lot of lines from the article which helps to strengthen your paper. In your paper you talk about the evidence the author used to make a good argument, but what I would like to see is you going in depth and explaining why the evidence makes a good argument in the article. What compelling arguments did the author make that makes use of rhetoric and what types of rhetorical devices could you talk about to make your paper stronger? Overall you wrote a very strong paper and you managed to have a very elegant  way of writing but not to state your opinion or carry over any bias. You were able to write a quick summarization of the article and inform your readers on the topic you are covering.