1) Read once, looking for and noting the good: strong diction, interesting syntax, effective structural choices, inviting openings and powerful closings.
2) Confirm the short sentence/fragment is rhetorically effective and correctly labeled. Confirm that the appositive is grammatically correct, rhetorically effective, and correctly labeled.
3) Read it again, looking for areas of weakness: vague, confusing, or inaccurate word choices, awkward sentence structures, poorly developed paragraphs, bland openings (beware of declarative sentences) and didactic closings. Ask questions. Help your writer add details and content.
4) Pay special attention to places where the author is telling rather than showing. The most common comment I make on this essay is "HiF?": How does it feel?
If you only give your writer praise, you have done nothing to help him or her revise and improve the essay.
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