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In all honesty the first draft needed a lot of work, the first thing I revised on my paper was the thesis. I did not read the assignment instructions properly the first time, causing my entire easy to be focused on a completely different topic than what was asked. Then I took Professor Astocio’s e-mail comments into consideration and included in my essay why people should care about this argument. My peers suggested Bryan Stevenson should be mentioned in the first paragraph instead of the second, their advice was useful. Altering my first paragraph allowed me to focus my attention on the ways Stevenson used rhetoric, rather than on him personally and a summary of the things mentioned in his Ted Talk. Finally, the last things I revised included

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