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2. Select the best ideas from your prewriting activity to construct a working thesis. 3. With your writing group, co-construct a preliminary outline that includes your
thesis and supporting topic sentences with relevant examples and details.
Drafting
4. Review the ideas from your prewriting activity and co-construct a draft of your body paragraphs.
5. Read your body paragraphs and discuss an effective way to introduce and conclude your key ideas. Use a prewriting strategy to generate a draft that demonstrates the parts of effective introductions (hook/lead, connection, and thesis) and conclusions (response to the levels of questions).
Revising
6. Read aloud your draft to your writing group. Gather feedback based on the criteria of an effective response to literature essay found under the goals section at the beginning of the workshop.
7. Review your draft for coherence:
• Discuss which transitions can be used to link ideas effectively within and
between your body paragraphs. Incorporate at least two into your draft.
• If your draft contains too many short, choppy sentences, discuss the ideas
that can be combined and revise using coordinating conjunctions.
Editing
8. Read your draft and, with your peers, edit to correct errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
9. Discuss the key ideas present in your essay and generate a list of potentially creative titles. Rank them and select one. Place a title at the top of your essay.
Check Your Understanding
Review the Scoring Guide. Compare your essay with the scoring guide to ensure your essay meets all of the requirements. If possible, exchange your essay with another group and allow them to evaluate it against the Scoring Guide to ensure your essay is successful.
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