POL203: Critical Thinking in Politics
Paper #1 Readers' Comments Sheet

Paper Author:

Review Author:


What is the main claim of the paper? What are the subordinate claims? Sketch an outline of the paper's argument on the back of this sheet.


What sorts of evidence does the author use? Is the evidence appropriate? What additional evidence would you suggest, if any?


Does the author take account of possible objections to the argument? If so, how does the author deal with these objections? If not, state a few objections (i.e., at least two) that you would raise and suggest ways that the author could address them.

Find at least one passage (a) where the author makes use of what Booth, Colomb and Williams call a "warrant," or (b) one passage where the author could have done so in order to strengthen the argument.