Drafting, Reflecting, and Reviewing the Analysis Paper
Drafting, Reflecting, and Reviewing the Analysis Paper
Write a rough draft for your analysis paper and provide some reflections about that draft. Provide peer review of reflective letters and, if desired, drafts.
Read this article, “
Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?
,” which is linked here. Then draft a letter to your reader and make it your initial post in this forum. Use the following questions to help you write this Dear Reader letter.
- My intentions for this essay were…
- I wanted the paper to successfully do this….(talk about purpose and effects)
- I imagine that my target audience looks like this…
- The process I used to build this draft involves these steps…
- I arrived at the topic and narrowed it in the following way…
- My pre-writing steps involved the following…
- Challenges I faced included these…
- Pleasant surprises I encountered in the process were…
- I made a few/many changes as I went along and they were…
- I had to make some decisions that related to…
- The work we’ve done in previous forums helped me in the following way(s)…
- The primary take-away I want my reader to have from this paper is…
- My suggestions to others writing a similar paper would be these…
*** Since you are all majoring in different fields of study, and some of you may be using APA, Chicago/Turabian, or MLA for your essay format and citations, please tell me in your post which notation style you are using. The final submission must be correctly formatted with citations.***