ENG 215 Week 2 Evaluate and Revise an Argument

Review Ch. 7 of your textbook.

Complete the Evaluate and Revise an Argument worksheet.

Submit your worksheet to the Assignment Files tab.

Evaluate and Revise an Argument

Complete the following two parts of this worksheet to evaluate and revise an argument.

Part 1 – Evaluating

Read the paragraph in Practice 7.1 of Ch. 7 of your textbook.

Evaluate the paragraph’s strengths and weaknesses, by using the Revision Guide on p. 181 of Ch. 7 of your textbook.

Fill out the following table listing the strengths, weaknesses, and your suggestions for improvement. Give thorough feedback that would be useful to the writer by providing at least two for each category.

Part 2 – Revising

Revise the paragraph using the suggestions you provided in Part 1.

Note. Changing a few words here and there is not a revision. You will need to carefully revise (“see again”) the paragraph to make it a stronger and more effective piece.

Insert your rewrite: