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Workshop Guidelines: Considering Your Draft

Workshop Guidelines: Considering Your Draft

Before you turn in your draft, respond to the following questions. See page 425 of your textbook.

This activity contains 4 questions.

	Is your purpose clear? Do you think readers will understand the question that interests you or what your particular motives were when writing about this culture?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Have you taken a landscape picture when you needed a close-up? Does the draft try to cover too much territory, include too much information, or say too much?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Is there enough specific information—observations, scenes, facts, dialogue, and so on? Do you show as well as tell in the draft?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Is it clear what you're trying to say about this group? Do you propose a certain theory about how it operates or sees things? Do you make a central claim or have a main point? Are you working toward some kind of dominant impression or interpretation of the group?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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