If your outline was thoroughly done, you are ready to start drafting your paper. If you still need to work on your outline, I strongly recommend that you complete that before starting to draft. When you are drafting, here are a few things to keep in mind:
- getting it down is the most important thing - don't drive yourself crazy with word choice right now - you can revise that later
- keep yourself organized by following your outline and writing topic sentences
- do pay attention to punctuation, especially for quotes - refer back to the mini-lesson on quotes on the network if you need to
- quote sandwich! quote sandwich! make sure that you have both a top and bottom slice for each quote
- follow the guidelines for MLA parenthetical citation as detailed on many web sites, including Purdue OWL
Rough Draft Rubric - 100 points total
includes an introduction with thesis statement - ___/10
parenthetical citations are correct - ____/15body paragraphs include ample detail - facts, statistics, anecdotes, etc. - ____/15
topic sentences are included for each body paragraph - ____/10
includes a minimum of 5 primary source quotes somewhere in the paper - ____/10
includes a minimum of 5 secondary source quotes somewhere in the paper - ____/10
each and every quote is sandwiched with topic and bottom slices to contextualize the quotes - ____/10
editing is good (doesn't need to be perfect but attention was given to capitalization, spelling, etc.) - ____/10
writer used workshop time efficiently and did not disturb others - ____/10
NO CONCLUSION NEEDED FOR ROUGH DRAFT!
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