In class there were many well written five part paragraphs as well as some that were not as well put together. Some of the most common weaknesses that people had was that they weren't embedding their quotes and another that I thought was fairly common was having plot summary instead of commentary. I think what needs to improved upon is being able to blend quotes into a paragraph seamlessly. Since a lot of people gave plot summary after their quotes, it would have been better for them to move it in front of the quote and merge the two so that the quote would be embedded. Simple as that... To write good topics a writer needs to sum up their paragraph in one sentence while introducing a theme and title and author. Concrete details should be chosen to match the theme as close as possible, embedded and followed with a citation. And commentary should just be what you are thinking about the quote in terms of the topic.
I think to better my own skills I need to read my paragraph thoroughly and instead of trying to find spelling or grammatical errors I need to find things I could add, such as the citations. Also i could have added one or two more sentences about the lynch mob. Then I need to think in terms of present tense, not past tense and I think I would Ace the paragraph.
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