In a moment, I'm going to email you my responses to your first assignment. I'm sending each of you a word document with in-text comments added. In terms of completing the assignment, both of you did just fine.
A writing comment I made to both of you is to try and include more specific examples in the future. These examples could take the form of names, facts and statistics, stories, images, and more. An example of what I mean is this: Instead of writing a general sentence like, "Charles had a long history of bad behavior," try something like this: "The first time Charles was arrested was at age nine when he was caught stealing the radio from his neighbor's Jeep. He followed that up with six more arrests before the age of 18. His first arrest for assault was for punching his ninth grade teacher in the nose after he failed an algebra test...." (This could keep going, of course, with more and more detail about Charles's criminal career. The point is that when you provide specific examples, three things happen: 1) you give your reader a much more precise version of events, 2) you explore your topic far more thoroughly, and 3) you generate much more material, making it easier to reach an assignment's required length.
In terms of the content-type questions I asked, there is no formal assignment, but I do expect you to read the questions, think about how you would answer them, and try to let this kind of thinking guide your assignments in the future.
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