1) I usually look over any assignment a teacher provides me at least twice before I begin working on it. While working on it I usually glance back over it two or three times to make sure I'm staying on topic with the assignment. Once I'm done with the first draft I thoroughly read over it once to just critique my self and do a quick check for grammar issues. One benefit I've found from looking over the draft after its done is that I can sometimes catch fragments or run-on sentences myself before I even consider letting someone else look over it for me.
2) You could have an expert on the topic you are trying to argue come and read and critique your paper for you. Let you know what he agrees with and what he disagrees with on your paper, maybe even give you some personal experience to work with.
3) I think the most useful tidbit of information in that section is the area at the beginning where they are talking about "Do not write a summary unless your professor directly asks you to summarize", Which is what I have always had trouble understanding and this helped me further understand it but I would still like to go over it in class.
4) From what I understood the rubrics show all three characteristics are the same.
I think they want us to analyze more rather than summarize because summarizing just gives expamplesd as to what youa re reading rather than truly telling your understanding of the issue. Good post!
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