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6. Review your draft for language use and revise to include rhetorical devices, varying sentence structures, and transitional words/phrases in your group- generated and individually composed essays. Check for dangling modifiers. • Select ideas to emphasize by incorporating appropriate rhetorical devices,
such as parallelism, analogy, and rhetorical questions.
• If your draft contains too many simple sentences, revise sentences that could
be expanded for clarity or description.
• Revise at least two sentences to include an appositive or appositive phrase.
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.
Editing for Publication
8. Read your draft and peer edit to correct errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
9. Discuss the key ideas 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.
Assessing your Draft
10. Review the Scoring Guide. Use the Scoring Guide to evaluate your essay and ensure that it 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.
ACTIVITY 4
Independent Writing
WRITING PROMPT: Think about your friends. What makes someone a friend? How do you demonstrate being a friend? Write a multi- paragraph essay that explains the concept of friendship. Follow the prewriting, drafting, and revising process you have been practicing in this workshop. Be sure the essay:
• Presents effective introductory and concluding paragraphs.
• Contains a clearly stated purpose or controlling idea.
• Is logically organized with appropriate facts and details.
• Includes no extraneous information or inconsistencies.
• Accurately synthesizes ideas from several sources.
• Uses a variety of rhetorical devices and sentence structures.
• Uses a variety of transitions to create coherence.
Review the Scoring Guide to make sure you understand the specific requirements of this writing activity.
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