Rough Draft

Rough Draft

Purpose:

Academic writing goes through several drafts. The purpose of a rough draft is to work out your ideas in writing. A rough draft is also a key moment to seek and apply feedback from your instructor.

Task:

Review the Final Paper instructions below.

Compose a rough draft that satisfies the requirements for the Final Paper. The more you invest in your rough draft, the more your instructor and peer feedback will help in making revisions for the Final Paper.

Submit the rough draft to the Dropbox.

Be sure to submit a copy of your rough draft in the Peer Review discussion after you’ve turned it in!

Final Paper Instructions

Final Paper (ENG 102 Signature Assignment)

Due Date: Saturday (the final day of class), 11:59 p.m. PST
Points: 500

Purpose:

Throughout your college studies, you will be required to write papers. The goal of ENG 102 is to practice the basic patterns of academic writing that will be required in all your college-level papers. To practice these patterns in your final paper, you will interact with topical debates from an academic perspective. All the assignments leading up to this paper will help you draft essential parts of your final paper, and you will assemble them all together in a rough draft. For the final paper, you will substantially revise your rough draft to address the comments from your professor and peers and develop your paper’s argument further than the rough draft. By engaging in global revisions, we hope you come to develop a mature writing process, where you can see the benefits of recursive writing—of re-writing and re-thinking.  

1. Task:
2. In your paper, you will take a position on a topical debate by responding to one of the eight topics on the class LibGuide.
3. Bail Reform
4. Caring for the Caretakers: Burnout and Wellness

Communication in Relationships

Homework: Is it Necessary?

The War in Ukraine: Why is Russia Losing?

Our Threatened Oceans

The Housing Affordability Crisis

On Auto-Pilot: Self-Driving Cars

In this paper, you will make an arguable, specific claim (thesis) that creates a conversation with several articles in the readings and articles that you found from your own research. The paper will consider ethical elements of the debate and utilize elements of classical persuasion as appropriate and effective.

Complete the following steps to submit your Final Paper:

Review the comments on your rough draft from your professor and peers.

Make global and specific revisions to the rough draft to improve the paper.          

Thoroughly proofread the paper.