three sample papers

I read three sample papers written by students. The writers were trying to persuade the reader to short stories written by an author of their choice. I would give the paper “Charles Bukowski: A writer With No Patience for Liars, Thieves or Snobs” an “A”. I thought this paper was very well written. The student used signal phrases and then backed them up with lines from the story or quotes. The student found someone else’s opinion on what they thought of Charles Bukowski and included it in the paper. I thought the student did a good job keeping on the same subject and backing up what the paper was about. I thought the choice of lines from the book were interesting. It looked like there were a few mistakes on spacing but other than that it looked really good. I was not as impressed with the paper written by Sara Laughton. I thought it was good but there were parts I had to read over a few times to understand what was trying to be said. There was a line on page four that I really didn’t like. It was right after the big quote in the middle of the paper, it read “I love this description; it really got me interested in the story.” In the phrase right before the quote she said that the lines to follow come from the end of the story. She had already stated that she became interested in the stories written by Matt Waterman by reading the first paragraph or so. To me it seemed that she was or should’ve been already interested in the story without one of the last paragraphs. I thought she picked very good lines from the book, they made the paper interesting. I somewhat got bored in the in between stuff but I looked forward to the book quotes. I also noticed a few MLA mistakes. Overall I thought it was a good paper and I would probably give it a “B+.” The third paper titled “Jill McCorkle: Life in Reality” was also good. I thought the student did a good job backing up that the author wrote about reality. The student also had a quote from the author which I found interesting. I also thought the book quotes were well picked. It looked like there were a few problems with MLA. I didn’t read this paper as close as the other two but I thought it wasn’t bad. Since I didn’t look close into the paper I don’t think I could give it a grade. I don’t think I am too excited to write this kind of paper!