Module 10 - Activity 3

Activity 3: Resources and Websites

In SF Writer, Chapters 6 you find out how to get started on your draft and how to pace your writing. Chapter 7 gives you tips on revising, editing and proofreading—all processes you will need each time you look at your draft. There is also a section in Chapter 8 called civil language so that you monitor the type of language you use in your writing.
In Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond, Chapter 20 there is a great review for drafts on p. 599 and there is a checklist for revision on p. 30 and an example of a first draft on p. 33 in Chapter 4. There is also a suggestion for reading aloud your draft in that same chapter.

Research Navigator, the Start Writing tab includes “Proofreading & Formatting the Rough Draft,”

Here is a series of tips about using drafts to enhance your paper writing. http://www.unc.edu/~twtaylor/success.html Notice the sequential strategies section.
This website gives you the difference between editing and revising a paper. It also suggests some very important steps for the process from the U of North Carolina: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/revision.html

Citation: sguy. (2007, February 26). Module 10 - Activity 3. Retrieved November 21, 2009, from Western Governors University Web site: http://ocw.wgu.edu/liberal-arts/research-writing-and-oral-presentation-after-11-1/a103.html.