After your rough draft, you will begin revising your paper in preparation for Peer Responses. In order for a paper to count as a "Revised" draft, you must show evidence that you substantially changed and improved the previous draft from top to bottom. Google Drive has a revision history for each document you store in your writing folder, so I will be able to check to see how much time you put into revision and the extent of your changes. Light editing will not count as completion. To achieve a minimum standard of revision, make sure you do the following:
- Add to every existing paragraph at least 3-4 sentences.
- Make changes to every sentence that you do not completely remove.
- Add at least one entirely new paragraph to your paper. Also, consider deleting an existing paragraph if it is off topic or no longer works
- Proofread for typos and grammar confusion all through.
Then, after Peer Responses are done, you will revise your paper in the ways described above to make it a "Final" draft. I am putting "final" in quotation marks because there really is never a final final draft. You can always make a paper better, just like you can always make your life better. But the same revision standards apply between Peer Responses and the "Final" draft: substantial change and improvement throughout every paragraph, adding new and better ideas, removing stale, general ones. Meeting these revision standards is how you earn full credit on the "Final" draft.
You need to put a lot of effort into revision because failure to revise your papers fully and substantially (after your Rough Draft AND after Peer Responses) could result in an "incomplete" grade.
