My critical look on Ms. Rangel's critical look at a potential gun measure.

Stage Six: Comment on a colleague’s work #1 (POST TO BE GRADED)

Way back when on April 5^th, one of my fellow colleagues, Ms. Sandra Rangel, wrote a short editorial on an article she found in the Dallas Morning News.

The article details the effects of a new bill that was currently under consideration from the House, and Ms. Rangel does an excellent job of quickly summarizing what the article was about, and notes the important people. What was the best part about her editorial however, is as soon as she introduces a new part of the article, she immediately follows it up with her own opinion, and this really does a great job to help connect us the readers, to her, and get an idea on how she feels about every aspect of the bill. She feels very true and honest throughout this entire piece, and manages to conjure up some humor with some obvious sarcasm. She also did a great job of pointing out what she felt was a little weak in the article “Wayne Slater presents a good article for the purpose it was meant for but he should have talked about the bill and restrictions the bill has.”

However, despite her well written format and information, there is one notable part to it that I was really turned off after immediately reading, and that was the fact that she never used a hyperlink to allow the reader to directly connect to the article in discussion. While she did provide more than enough information for the reader to find the article themselves, including the newspaper that published it, and the title of the article, as well as who it was written by. A hyperlink somewhere in either the beginning or the end of her piece would have simplified the effort for the reader, which I feel you would always like to appeal to being a blogger.

In the end, great work Ms. Rangel, and good luck to you in the future.