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Prewriting
3. With your writing group, discuss your findings. As a group, select an appropriate prewriting strategy to generate ideas in response to the prompt. Select the best ideas from the prewriting activity to construct a working thesis for the essay.
4. Co-construct a preliminary outline for your essay that includes your thesis and supporting topic sentences with relevant examples and details.
Drafting
5. Review the ideas from your prewriting and outline and co-construct a draft of your body paragraphs. Be sure to include quotes from the article where appropriate.
6. Read the body paragraphs and discuss an effective way to introduce and conclude the key ideas.
7. Use a prewriting strategy to generate a draft of an effective introduction and conclusion.
8. Discuss the key ideas present in your essay and, with your peers, generate a list of potentially creative titles. Rank them and select one. Place a title at the top of the essay.
Revising
9. Read aloud the draft to the writing group, and gather feedback based on the criteria in the goal statement for an effective response to an expository text.
10. With your peers review the draft for coherence:
• Discuss with your peers which transitions can be used to link ideas effectively
within and between the body paragraphs. Incorporate at least two into the
draft.
• Discuss ways to revise the draft to enhance style by adding in rhetorical
devices and sentence variety where appropriate.
11. Review the Scoring Guide. Compare the essay with the Scoring Guide to ensure the essay meets all of the requirements. If possible, exchange the essay with another writing group and allow them to evaluate it against the Scoring Guide to ensure the essay is successful.
Editing
12. Read the draft and peer edit to correct errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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