Expository Writing: Talking Points

Don't forget to read pages 116-149 in your text. Some questions to consider:

1) What assumptions about the reader is Manohla Dargis, the writer of the essay "Defending Goliath" on page 118 of your text, making in that essay?
2) What do you think of the descriptions of the actors in Elvis Mitchell's review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on page 122 of your text?
3) What do and don't you like about the review of Star Wars on page 125 of your text?
4)  What do you think of the first sentence of the review of The Godfather on page 127 of your text?