Persuasive Research Essay

Now that you’ve crafted a working thesis statement and begun drafting what your essay could look like, it’s time to put this thinking into practice. Write a traditional rough draft. It does not have to be complete, but you should strive to write as complete a draft as possible.

Drafting, revising, and receiving feedback is essential to improving your writing. Peer review is a big part of this. As just one person, I may miss things in your drafts. Having an extra set of eyes on your writing allows you to get a variety of feedback from multiple sources. Additionally, being able to examine and critique your classmates’ writing gives you a chance to see what others are working on (not just what they could improve, but what you could improve too).

Task:

1) For your rough draft, please attach a Word document to your main discussion post.

The main criteria of your rough draft is that it needs to contain a minimum of 800 words of editable material. This may include quotations, citations, and even notes on how you plan to fix or add to something already in the draft. Once it is submitted, it should look like the file I submitted in my discussion board post (sorry, that was all I could find).

2) Once you have submitted your rough draft, complete your peer reviews by giving feedback on your assigned partners’ drafts. You will be assigned two partners. Look for their discussion post below, download their rough draft, and respond using the questions in the pdf below. If their file is Word (Definitely a preference for Rough Draft submissions btw), then you can leave comments and cut and paste the 10 questions into the end of their draft to write your answers on. If it is a pdf, then you may need to open a Word doc to write your response and feedback on. Once you have their feedback completed, add your name and email address at the top in case they have questions about your feedback, and then you just post it as a reply to their original draft post.