Help me explain and understand in a simple way.
1. When the preliminary prewriting tasks are out of the way, you can concentrate on crafting your essay. The first attempt is called the first draft Sometimes – when you have an in-class test for instance – the first draft is a you have time to write. Don’t worry. If you have done sufficient prewriting you will be able to do a good, though the somewhat rough, job of presenting your ideas even when you have time only for one draft. Despite the press o time in an in-class essay, do not sacrifice
pre-writing, even if you can give only a few minutes to it.
2. In most college writing courses, however, the first draft is just a rough draft. You will have time to go over your work several times, making each draft (attempt] better and a little more polished. Try to make the rough draft a relaxed effort. Don’t censor yourself or inhibit the flow of ideas. The main purpose of a rough draft is to write consecutive sentences on paper about a topic that you’ve thought about carefully.
After you get through your essay once, let it sit for awhile. Do something else. You will produce a better revision if you get a fresh perspective. Taking a break between drafts helps clear your mind and makes you more objective.
3. This is often a good stage at which to let someone else take a look at your work. Another reader is often useful for clarifying for the kind of revision that is needed. But whether there is another reader or you are the only person reading the rough draft, the same issues should guide you toward a revised draft.
4. Two essential issues are unity and coherence, and any revision must address them carefully. Unity, which involves thesis/main idea skills, refers to the idea that all sentences in an essay must relate to the thesis as well as to each other. Coherence, which relates to summary writing skills, refers to the idea that all written thoughts must connect to each other logically, clearly, and smoothly. Unity and coherence are the writer’s and the reader’s guarantee that the piece makes sense.
5. In your revision efforts, pay attention to how you have ordered the details in your paper. Especially in a narrative or process essay, you may want to organize information chronologically, that is according to a clear time sequence. In a descriptive paper, you may wish to present details spatially – top to bottom, front to back, or side to side, for example. Or you might wish to consider arranging details in the order of importance, where you build to an essential point by presenting the less important information before you tell the reader the most important details.
6. As you revise, you need to ask questions such as these: “Does the writing make sense?” “Did I leave anything out?” “Could the essay be clearer if I changed the order of ideas?” “Do I need more examples or more specific details?” “Are there some things I should leave out?”
7. “Can the beginning or ending be stronger?” “Have I presented my ideas in a grammatically fluent way without too many spelling, punctuation. or other kinds of errors?”
8. If you handwrite or type your paper, you might use a different colored pencil or pen at this stage to cross out or draw lines indicating where to move words and sentences. Insert new pages with changes. Write notes to yourself in the margins; put arrows or stars where you want to add material.
9. Don’t worry about the mess. The key aim of revision is to produce a guide for the next draft. As long as you produce a useful document, you will be revising correctly. If you use a computer, your revisions will be much easier to accomplish; move words around and insert phrases using the various options of your word-processing program.
10. Start with a fresh sheet of paper for the second draft. Work slowly to make sure you integrate all the changes from the first draft. Make sure you proofread for both content and grammar. Make sure you copy everything exactly as you want it to be, without missing anything or copying something incorrectly.
11. When you are finished with the second draft, put it aside for a while before you come back to it. When you reread it, be strict with yourself. Can you rewrite any sentences to make them clearer? Are the most important statements in the most important places in your paragraphs? Could your language be more precise, livelier, more direct? One of your main concerns at this stage should be editing, that is correcting all errors that you may have ignored (appropriately) in early drafts as you worked toward clearer, fuller sentences and logical paragraphs. Are there mistakes in grammar, spelling, sentence structure, or punctuation? If you are satisfied with your responses to each question, you may decide it is time to hand the essay in. If you are not satisfied, writing another draft is a good idea.
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1. What is a thesis statement? and explain how to write a thesis statement with do and don’ts. Provide some tips how to write a thesis statement.
