Hi Everyone,

As I mentioned today, your only homework for Monday is to complete a draft of your research essay, print it, and bring it to class. Do everything you can to write as complete a draft as possible. Once you get into the flow, just write. You’ll have almost two weeks to revise your draft, which is plenty of time to shape your draft into a final essay you’ll be proud of. Don’t worry too much about page length/word count. Just write as much as you can.

Remember that we will not be doing peer review in class on Monday. You’ll just be trading drafts and talking to each other about your drafts. Then, for homework, each of you will read your partners’ draft and return it to them with comments on Wednesday.

Finally, please make sure to download or print Harold Evans’s “The Sentence Clinic” (available here) and bring it to class (either in digital form or printed out). We’re going to go over some of his advice about editing in class on Monday.

Good luck with your writing. Write me with any questions at all.