Editorial Reviewer
Dr. Julian Merriweather
PhD, Rhetoric & Composition
Argumentation and thesis development
- Years active
- 14
- Guides reviewed
- 436
Julian's research is on how undergraduates build arguments — specifically, the gap between a thesis a student believes and a thesis they can evidence. He has taught first-year composition for over a decade and now directs a university writing center.
He reviews EssayCrackers guides for two things: whether the reasoning a guide proposes would actually survive a marker, and whether every source cited is real, current and says what the guide claims it says. The second matters more than it sounds. A fabricated-but-plausible citation passes review by eye and is only caught by resolving the URL.
He is skeptical of writing advice that treats structure as a template. Most of what he flags is a guide that would produce a competent essay answering the wrong question.
Recently reviewed question guides
- PSY 402 Topic 6 DQ 1: Metacognitive Regulation and Memory Performance
- LDR 615 Topic 3 DQ 1: Comparing Two Organizational Change Models
- PSY 402 Topic 3 DQ 1: Perceptual Dysfunction in a Projection Pathway
- PSY 402 Topic 5 DQ 1: Comparing Four Types of Memory
- PSY 402 Topic 7 DQ 1: Comparing Two Forms of Aphasia
- LDR 615 Topic 2 DQ 1: Why Vision Is Essential to Organizational Change
- PSY 402 Topic 1 DQ 1: The Emergence of Cognitive Psychology
- PSY 402 Topic 2 DQ 1: Phineas Gage and Localization of Function
- PSY 402 Topic 4 DQ 1: Early and Late Selection Models of Attention
- LDR 615 Topic 4 DQ 1: The Change Agent and the Guiding Team
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