FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II

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INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITING

INSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield

Now that you have formed a working thesis at the end of Ex. 28 and have created a working Organizational Plan (rough outline) in Ex. 29, it is now time to start writing.

From you notes, freewritings, and clustering exercises, generate a rough draft paragraph for each item in your Organizational Plan. Some items will eventually be developed into multi-paragraph sections, but for now, one rough paragraph will suffice. Your paragraph may be only 4 or 5 sentences or it may become a full page. No matter. You will continue to expand and delete information from each paragraph as you work toward the completion of your paper.

After you have completed a crude rough draft of the entire paper, continue your editing process by expanding and revising various sentences, passages, or paragraphs by using some of the methods of variation, amplification, or other rhetorical figures and strategies that we have learned. By now your paper should be about 80% roughed-out.

Continue to check and make sure each paragraph relates to your thesis and that each sentence supports your paragraph in a logical sequence. Finally, make sure your paragraphs are in a logical sequence to make and support your argument.

Lastly, don’t forget to write your abstract summary for the paper.

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