English 1121 Project
Revising: Rethinking, Rereading, Rewriting

Goals:

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Main assignment:

Revise your researched argument and prepare the final draft for your portfolio final exam. Go to Revising. Use P.L.A.C.E. as a guide to practice revision at three levels: global, structural, and local. In addition, as the process writing for this project, draft a cover letter to your portfolio readers.

Plan for Completing this Project

Step 1. Global Revision: Re-thinking Purpose, Audience, and Thesis.

• Read the New Century Handbook, section 5a.
• Go to Global Revision at the Writers' PLACE and follow the steps given there for creating a new global draft of your paper. Share your new draft with your writing group. Which draft is stronger, your starting draft or your global draft?

Step 2. Structural Revision: Re-reading and analyzing organization and evidence.

• Read the New Century Handbook, section 5b.1-4.
• Choose the draft you like best, either your starting draft or your global draft.
• Go to Structural Revision at the Writers' PLACE and follow the steps given there and make either a descriptive outline or collage of your paper.
• Use this outline or collage to develop a structural draft of your essay.

Step 3. Local Revision: Re-writing Language and Page Layout

• Read the New Century Handbook, section 5b.5-7, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f.
• Go to Local Revision at the Writers' PLACE and follow the steps given there for rewriting the language of your paper and for using a style manual to format your paper correctly.

Step 4. Collaboration

Continue to give and receive feedback as you and the members of your group work together through the revision process. You may also review your paper with a tutor in the campus Writing Lab.

Step 5. Editing and Proofreading

Go to Editing and Proofreading at the Writers' PLACE for help in preparing the final draft of your paper.

Process Memo:

The process memo for this assignment is the cover letter for the portfolio. This cover letter will be written as the final in-class essay exam. It should be addressed to the portfolio reader and presented in standard letter form. Using the list of outcomes in your course syllabus, explain to the reader how your portfolio demonstrates writing competency.

Project Requirements:

To receive credit for this project you must turn in the final draft of your researched argument with at these three working drafts attached:

___ starting draft
___ global draft
___ structural draft with annotation or descriptive outline
___ final draft