Inventing, Drafting, and Revising:

 12 Steps in Completing Essay Assignments

Read St. Martin's chapter on the type of essay assigned. 

On your disk, open a new document in the appropriate essay's folder (Essay 1, 2, 3, 4), title it Essay x Inventions and follow the prompts for inventions as assigned (see your schedule and "Four Portfolio Writing Assignments," for specific pages in the text); share with instructor for HW credit. 

Be sure your inventions include a statement of 
        1. purpose 
        2. short description of audience 
        3. general idea you want to communicate 

Reread the Writing Assignment (both St. Martin's and "Four Portfolio Assignments"), revise draft to meet all requirements. You may share your topic and thesis with instructor and peer(s) through your D2L Peer Group forum (Discussion area). 

Open a new document in the essay's folder, title it Essay x Draft #1.  

Complete coversheet (Portfolio e-book p. 63) after you write draft #1 (word process using the Word file found in your D2L email). 

Get feedback from peer group (in class or out of class peer group) on draft #1.

Revise draft #1: with draft #1 open, do a "save-as" and re-name it as draft #2 before you begin revision. This allows you a basis of comparison between the two.

Revise coversheet after you write draft #2. 

Get feedback from teacher on hard copy of draft #2 and revise for draft #3 following the same procedure for revising draft to #2. 

Revise coversheet after you write draft #3 for portfolio consideration.

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