Mag: Critiques + Things

Hello Students:

Since you won’t get my thoughts back until AFTER you turn in your next critiques, I thought I would post a few general comments here:

1. by and large, you did well on your first pass; however,
2. you need to get specific in the text. There were far too many generalities and assumptions (e.g. you assume that everyone agrees with your point so you don’t prove it.);
3. which functionally means for the next critique: make sure whenever you 1) have a point about the writing 2) that you then illustrate with the text and 3) explain why that illustration proves your point.

That was my biggest blanket critique. Your thoughts were good, but there was oftentimes nothing to back them up. Get specific.

All in all, though, a pleasing set of papers to read.

Also: remind me to tell you the story about my potential agent and my lack of formatting (this happened last week + nearly cost me a chance at representation). I am not enforcing the format rules for no reason.