2.3 Personal Response Final Draft

In this assignment, you will write a final draft of your personal essay response by expanding on the ideas from your 2.2 Personal Response Planning Chart for “To Everything There Is a Season,” by Alistair MacLeod, on pages 300-305, in Sightlines 10. You have already completed much of the necessary work in your planning chart!

You will work through several writing stages:  incorporating feedback, rough draft writing, editing, revising, and polishing. This assignment will be your final polished draft after revising, and you will submit this final draft for for evaluation.
 
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Step 1:    Examine the 2.3 Personal Response Rubric to see how your personal response final draft will be assessed.

Step 2:    Review your paragraph short notes re-watch this Writing Paragraphs Tutorial. Remember to introduce your topic in your introductory paragraph. Also, remember that a well developed paragraph has a topic sentence, at least 3 supporting sentences, and a closing sentence.

Step 3:    Review the student 2.3 Exemplar and Assessment of the personal response and the assessment.

Step 4:    Review the feedback for your 2.2 Personal Response Chart. Using your chart , you now need to write the rough draft, putting each section of your chart into paragraph form. The essay must be three well developed paragraphs in length, and must address the "What? So What? Now What?" planning. Remember to use transition words and transitional sentences at the end of all paragraphs that tell what you have discussed within that paragraph, and what you plan to discuss in the upcoming paragraph.

Step 5:    Review this Grammar and Punctuation Tutorial.

Step 6:    Review the Writing Tips course page, where you can download the Editing Checklist, and use the given writing tips to assist you with the editing and revision of your writing. Make sure your sentence structure is correct and varied. Taking a mental break between your rough and final draft is also a good editing technique, as you will be able to review your work with a "fresh eye." Note: This is a multi-step process, as you will be rereading your draft many times to edit and revise for each category (sentence structures, spelling, punctuation, word usage, and so on). Write your final draft.

Step 7:    Save your Final Polished Draft assignment as FirstnameLastname2.2PersonalR.

Step 8:   Submit your Final Draft assignment for marking in the space provided.