Based On Your Prewriting Ideas, Pick A Topic

Based On Your Pre Writing Ideas Pick One Of Your Topics And Expand It

Based on your pre-writing ideas, pick one of your topics and expand it into a draft. Keep in mind that you need to have a clear thesis and three descriptors. The essay should flow naturally from this structure (introduction with thesis, point 1, 2, 3, conclusion) so that you are using the body to describe your topic in terms of the dominant impression you are trying to create for the reader.

Save your document as either a .doc or .docx (Word document) and upload it to the discussion board by attaching the document to your post by Wednesday at 11:59 PM for half of your credit. By Sunday at 11:59 PM, you must give feedback to the person who posted before you on the discussion board or, if you were the first to post, to the last person to post after the deadline passes. This ensures everyone receives peer feedback. Missing this deadline means you may not receive feedback and miss out on this critical step.

To give feedback, download your peer’s document, use the Track Changes function in Word to offer specific feedback, save it again with “Revisions” added to the filename, and post it back to your peer’s thread. Include the "Descriptive Essay Peer Review Worksheet" in your revisions. Providing quality feedback involves being constructive and respectful, focusing primarily on “Big Picture” concerns (overall structure, clarity, flow) before sentence-level details.

Remember, prioritizing big picture feedback helps your peer improve their essay’s structure and main ideas, making sentence-level corrections more effective later.