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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Ranking 3 Sample Essays from the Red Reader #2

After going through D for Danforth, E for Eunic, and F for Foxglove I decided that I didn't really like any of them that much.  First off, Danforths essay, while bringing up a possibly interesting topic, lacks a appealing intro.  His sentences seem to lack substance in what they're saying and his thesis is very lacking.  Throughout the essay Danforth seems to be missing in depth analyzation of what he is saying.  Also, he seems to add the authors name and the title of the book in sentences when they don't need to be there as if to just fill up space and thats how the essay comes across, just filling up space.  Eunice essay thesis was to specific in my taste, not giving her enough to write on.  The whole way through all she does is say that the whiskey priest does this and thats an example of Greene misleading you over and over again. Enough said, the author pick a subject she had not enough to say about.  Finally, Foxglove essay does cover an interesting topic, but the intro didn't seem long enough or eloquent enough.  Then it goes further down hill. Foxglove abuses the privilege of quotes basically putting quote after quote making this essay about 50% quotes and barely any analysis.

1 comment:

  1. Filling up space, repeating, and boring us. That's a list of bad essays!

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