SWA12

Doug Pavlowsky
English 101, Section 056
October 22, 2007
Short Writing Assignment #12
Essentials of Argument pp 85-86 1-5
1. My current writing process involves finding out what I have to say as I write my first draft. After I have all of my ideas down I will often move paragraphs around, and tailor them to fit where they best belong, as well as tweaking the content of the paper.
2. An outline will organize your ideas, eliminate writer’s block, and tell you what to write about next.
3. One strategy is to look at your draft as a whole. This way you are reading it in a different format than when you wrote it originally. This will allow you to look more deeply into transitions and the clarity of your ideas. Another strategy is asking yourself revision questions. This will help to collect your thoughts and revise with a purpose rather than just reading over it and saying it looks good. The last strategy is check for final errors add the title, etcetera. This is just a final touch up on fine details of your paper to make sure everything is perfect before handing it in.
4. The exploratory paper defines all the possible viewpoints and selects one. From that you can further develop your chosen viewpoint and decide what needs to be done.
5. Possible peer review strategies include going through a checklist of sorts and looking at parts of the paper or just looking at the paper as a whole and talking about it. A peer review is good because someone on the same intellectual level as you is looking at the paper, but is still an outsider without the same preconceived notions as you.