Write a letter to the author of the essay you have just read. Begin your letter "Dear ____" and sign your name after you close your letter. Remember that your goal is to help your classmate improve the essay.
1. Is the claim clear, qualified, and arguable? If not, what suggestions can you make?
2. What other reasons could support the author's position?
3. What is the author's strongest reason?
4. What other conditions of rebuttal should the author include?
5. How could the author respond to conditions of rebuttal more persuasively?
6. What questions do you have? What is unclear or incomplete?
7. What has the author done well?