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I want you to write 2 pages for the first draft and 3 pages for the final draft.

Draft

The body of your paper will describe, summarize, and respond to the core reading.

1. Description requires that you identify the core reading by title and the author by his/her full name. You may also briefly identify the genre or purpose of the core reading (that is, identify whether it is an essay, a short story, a poem, a report, an editorial, biography/memoir, instructions, persuasion, etc.). Tell your reader what the core reading is.

1. Your summary should include an interpretation of the intended meaning of the reading—its main point, theme, or key issues—and point to significant details of the text that support this interpretation. Tell your reader what the reading is about and what it means.

1. Your response should expand on your understanding of the core reading and the surrounding issues, and may incorporate your own ideas and experiences as they relate to the reading. Chapter 4 in our textbook gives examples of types of responses. This is your chance to say what you think, and why.

Your thesis statement should indicate your overall response to the core reading—whether it is your reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with key ideas, or your insights interpreting and reflecting on the meaning of key ideas. Your ideas should be supported with evidence from the reading and possibly from your outside reading or experience. Cite specific quotes from the core reading to back-up your interpretations or use as touchstones for your responses. Your overall objective is to contribute to the conversation about this core reading and to engage your readers in your ideas—ideally, helping them to understand some aspect of the reading more fully. To do this effectively, you’ll need to consider your readers/audience carefully as part of the collecting and shaping phase. (See the section on Audience Analysis below, and review the pages on Audience Analysis in Chapter 2 of our textbook carefully.)

Include an audience analysis of 200 words

The Audience Analysis

The audience analysis should be minimum 200 words in length, and should appear as the first item in your first draft, before page 1 of the actual paper. Use copy & paste to add your audience analysis to your first draft file before posting.

1. Audience profile. Describe and define your target audience. Who do you want to reach with your summary/response? Can you define the audience by age, gender, educational level, ethnic background, or any other criteria? (approximately 2-4 sentences)

2. Audience-subject relationship. Discuss what your audience probably already knows—if anything—about the topic. You are not just addressing the specific core reading here, which is probably new to most of your readers. You are addressing what your readers may know about, have experienced, or heard second-hand about the general theme of this reading. What attitudes or biases do you expect in your audience? (approximately 2-4 sentences.)

3. Audience-writer relationship. Discuss your relationship to this audience. Consider what you may have in common with your audience. Consider whether your audience will trust what you have to say or not. Are you “one of them,” or are they a group different from you who needs to know something you have to offer? (approximately 1-3 sentences.)

4. Writer’s role. Discuss the role/perspective you want to project to your readers. Do you want to come across as a fellow spectator, someone with personal experience of this topic, an expert on this particular reading, a friendly story-teller, or some other role? As long as you remain consistent, these and many other possibilities are acceptable. (approximately 1-3 sentences)

Final Draft

Due by the end of Session 4

Final drafts must consist of the following elements:

1. Final drafts must clearly be related to the earlier, first drafts. A progression of thinking from one draft to the next must be evident. Major changes in organization, new examples or ideas, or deletion of elements from the first to the final draft are expected, but the final must still be clearly a development of that first draft.

2. No final draft will be accepted until a first draft has been submitted—even if the first draft is late and worth no points, it must precede the final draft.

3. The audience analysis must be removed from the final draft.

4. The final draft must be properly formatted in MLA or APA style (as specified by your instructor) and must document the core reading with both in-text citations in the body of the paper and a Works Cited or References list at the end. The Works Cited or References list is NOT included in the word count requirement. See Session 2 for a specific example of your Works Cited or References citation. Note that for Web citations in MLA style, you will need to UPDATE the access date at the end of the citation to the date on which YOU looked at the website.

5. The final draft is to be a minimum of 850 words in length.