After prewriting, you’ll want to develop an initial draft that starts the writing. With this draft, you just want to aim to get some ideas down, not worry about spelling or grammar, and begin to organize your thoughts on paper.  This is a time for developing your thinking.

Once you develop this draft, take some time to reflect about the organization of your ideas by asking the following questions: how logical is my writing? are there any gaps in the development of ideas? is there repetition? does the paper flow easily?

You may also want to develop a Reverse Outline to assist you in checking the organization of your paper.

In this activity, you will explore and practice drafting and reverse outline techniques in your WordPress blog site.

Directions

1. Review the grading rubric as listed on this page.
2. Review your Prewriting.
3. Complete an initial draft about the My Writing Process topic (listed below):
   Writing Prompt: My Writing Process
   Think about the type of writing you did in school.  What are your memories of those experiences?  Do you look back at the type of writing you did with joy or disdain?  Did you love or hate writing in school? Do you carry these same feelings today about writing, good or bad, with you to college assignments? How would you describe your writing process? What are your writing strengths and weaknesses?
4. Complete a reverse outline (as described in the video above) of your initial draft.
5. When you are finished developing your initial draft and reverse outline, publish your initial draft and reverse outline in a new blog post at your WordPress site.
6. Submit the URL of your blog to your instructor.

Grading

Points: 25

Submitting: a website URL