After reading both essays that those students did, I was actually fairly impressed. There was many strongpoints in both essays with only a few weaknesses. I think the biggest strength that I found to be was the introduction. I thought it set the essay up very well and gave a very good entail as to what was to come later in the essay. The essays also gave a good amount of information about the actual program “S.P.I.T.’s” itself. They also provided some personal experiences into the essay which made it feel a lot more relatable and personal. The weaknesses that I saw was mainly just the structuring. I thought the overall organization of the essays could have been better in order to make the paper really flow and look presentable. However, other than that I thought the paper was pretty well put together. The sources they used were Kerry Dirks, Navigating Genres article, Sean Glatchs personal interview, Ann Johns article on Discourse communities, and the Facebook page about the program SPIT. Overall, other than a few tweaks, I thought the essays were fairly well put together and ultimately got the point across.
