Grading Pipher

Obviously, Pipher would get an A on her essay in the category of correct grammatical use as her essay was published in a college textbook. Her essay is very well organized; it just flows and is in chronological order. She starts off talking about when she was a twelve year old girl and first read The Diary of Anne Frank and then she talks about when she was fifty five years old and visited the Holocaust museum. Piper’s transitions are very smooth and her essay seems to slowly transition as a whole from addressing Anne Frank’s life to informing the audience how writing can change the world because people have so many interpretations of what writing can mean. She used her thesis throughout the whole essay so that it had one main theme. Her theme of the essay was how books and writings can have many different interpretations and it was easy to tell what her theme was. She talked about the experiences she had while reading Anne Frank’s diary, specifically pointing out how some writings you read can change the way you view things forever. If I was a teacher and was giving Mary Pipher a grade on her essay, I would honestly say that it is an A. Her thesis is clearly stated and she uses personal experience to help support her thesis. Her essay is very well organized and grammatically correct. Her tone was noticeable throughout the essay; it was a serious tone and then changed to an informational tone. Using the essay rubric given to us in class, I would say that Pipher follows almost everything on it and would deserve an A.