Upon my first reading of the two student papers I could tell that "Initiation into Adulthood" does not conform to the convention of writing about literature discussed in this chapter as "Hard Choices" does. Grammatically speaking neither of the student papers was inadequate. "Initiation into Adulthood" simply did not fit the "prompt" and was a more basic paper. Midway through the second paragraph of "Initiation into Adulthood" I knew it was the less sophisticated of …showed first 75 words of 537 total…

…showed last 75 words of 537 total…with a paraphrase of the original idea in your own words. "Hard Choices" still had a few issues that could be adjusted to enhance its already excellent presentation. First, there was not a work's cited page to help the reader locate the short stories used in his paper. Secondly, I noticed the author did not always use the full name of the original author when citing a quote, which is correct use of citing sources.