Whaling

If I were to critique the piece on Whaling from a perspective of Expressivism, this piece would have a lot to make up for! There is really no voice to the piece, and you're unsure of the writer's association with the subject. There is no personal story involved, just facts and figures. In the Expressivism theory of composition, I would have had this student make a few drafts of this piece, perhaps changing the narrative distance in each draft to gain a different perspective on it. Group peer evaluations would also be used before the final draft was turned in, so hopefully all the errors and injecting personal feelings and opinions would be changed. Also, I would probably have to students choose a broad topic for the semester, and then for each paper write a different emotion or way of looking at the same subject according to the writer.