Analyzing Student Essays

Both of the essays are filled with evidence and citations which helps to make what they are saying stronger. The second essay is set up very nice and uses good transitions from paragraph to paragraph. I feel as though the first essay should not have used headers and instead used transition sentences so the essay is not as cut up and so that the whole paper just flows better. It seems that there are transition sentences, but then headers were put in but they were not neccessary. One of the sources in the first essay was the Writing Space articles which we have read in class. The source Text, Role and Context was also used and lastly, they used Facebook. The sources used in the second essay were Writing Space, Text, Role and Context, The Constitution of Puerto Rican Student Association, The Concept of Discourse Community, and this student also had their essay checked with the writing center which really helps when perfecting your essays.