A rough draft is a collaboration of ideas and thoughts you gather and flesh out on paper, you add and delete material until you are satisfied that your work is complete and then you write your final draft.
You start a rough draft out with a good thesis statement including a summary of what my paper is about; this forms your topic paragraph or your introduction. This was also the main point of this section of the chapter. The chapter also mentioned a few common mistakes that are made when writing good thesis statements. Hacker suggested that your thesis is as specific as possible with good supporting detail making the topic clear.
The next point of the chapter was the body of the rough draft which is developed to support your thesis in a clear concise structure so that the readers understand your point. I found it interesting to learn to approach my rough draft in sections meaning not pay as much attention to the flow in the beginning and that these sections of paragraphs will be grouped or clustered together through the revision process toward writing my final draft.
Basically the rough draft is the place to only worry about focusing on your ideas from your research not to worry about sentence structure, punctuation, spelling or logical statements.
The last point was to attempt a conclusion or summarize the essay’s key points by wrapping up the essay. Also it was suggested to come back to review my introduction and conclusion after I have written them and see how my thesis statement is supported and concluded and I may need to slightly make changes to my thesis statement at this point.
I will use the information I learned this week in my rough draft by clustering and grouping the information in the body of my rough draft and then create an outline to follow and start placing the clusters and groups into the outline as I build my rough draft.
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