Self-Review for Tesla Article Analysis

Self-Review Questions

Answer each question with complete sentences.

1.    How well does the paper "match up" with the assignment's requirements and expectations?

I feel that I met all of the assignments requirements and I was successfully able to describe the logos, pathos and ethos of the author’s article.

2.    What is the paper's thesis statement?

Pick and article written by another author on a debatable topic and decide their effectiveness and quality of their argument.

3.    What are the major supporting points for the thesis statement?

The major supporting point I made was addressing the discrediting factors of the authors piece first and then following it with examples of good supporting facts.

4.    What questions or issues do you have regarding each supporting point?

The first issue I had with supporting my point was in the fact that it is hard to appeal the logic of theoretical sciences that took place a hundred years ago.

5.    What other supporting points/arguments could be helpful to the paper?

I could have given more specific example of the author’s emotional appeal to the reader instead of a long drawn out list.

6.    How clear are the relationships between the thesis and each supporting point?

I feel I was quite clear when I defined the individual parts of my paper without sectioning off the reader in a way so as to maintain a good flow throughout the piece.

7.    Where does the paper need transitions, content-lexical ties, bigger/smaller paragraphs or other organizational improvements?

The third paragraph where I described the pathos of the article could definitely be reduce to a point and streamlined as well as a smoother transition in to the second paragraph from the introduction.