Praising? Critiquing?

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     Something that I had never done until write now (yes it's a pun, you can laugh) was praise or critiquing a written piece. I have out loud, or in the fanfiction that I like to read sometimes when I'm bored, but never properly critiquing or praising.

    My amazing teacher, (Ms. Lizzy) had us do an optional praising or critiquing for our first formal writing assignment. I'm kind of ahead as I worried I wouldn't have time to do it. I thought it was due on Wednesday, (luckily it's not due till Sunday so I'm not really worried on time yet) and I thought I'd experiment with an article that I'm not using for my essay as practice for future reference. 

    Today, I read a new article in class, about dark matter and ghosts. I personally believe in both but I thought it would be fun to not agree with the author or the physicists that the author was critiquing for not believing in ghosts but believing in dark matter. 

Here's the link in case you're curious :)

Here will be me praising the author, Adam Frank.

    I admire Frank’s ability to try to engage the reader with comparisons of similar ideas. This demonstrates he could easily explain the concept throughly, because he was great at explaining what dark matter was and why it was even relelvant to the aritcle. Frank compares dark matter and ghost correctly, which shows being able to adjust his argument to different audiences.   

Hopefully my praise looks good, this is my very first time writing something like this in a more professional setting. :)

I expected it to be more difficult but it was simpler than I thought it would be and I'm glad I tried it out.

Comments

  1. Prof.LizzyJune 20, 2023 at 5:37 PM

    Fatima,

    I love your pun. My husband would get a kick out of that one 🤣 This is a great practice and I am happy to see you flexing your writing muscles here with a new challenge! Quick feedback: Check out your last sentence, "Frank compares dark matter and ghost correctly, which shows being able to adjust his argument to different audiences." From a reader perspective, how might you specify how Frank compares dark matter and ghosts correctly? Just a brief, but specific, explanation will help to give your reader a fuller picture about what it is you are praising!

    Great job!
    -Lizzy

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