Brief Assignment 7

Your BA7 is due on November 6 on Raider Writer by 11:59:59 p.m.

Objective: To demonstrate your ability to apply principles of revision to your own

writing

Purpose: In BA6, you identified the elements that needed revision in someone elses
paper. In this assignment, you will do the same thing for your paper.

Description: First, write a short summary of the strengths and weaknesses of your
current draft. Using instructor feedback, peer critiques, and your own analysis, identify
the specific elements that work well for your intended reader and those that do not.

Next, write a plan of action. For your plan of action, begin by identifying three specific
areas or elements from your draft that you intend to revise and explain why you chose
each one. Then, using the recommendations from chapters 6 (see pp. 117-127) and 10
from First-Year Writing and chapter 4 of the St. Martins Handbook, explain the steps you
will take to revise each one. For example, if a particular paragraph is too vague for your
reader, what are you going to have to do to make it more specific? If your topic sentences
do not represent the main idea of each body paragraph, what will you do in order to better
understand the main idea of each paragraph prior to revising each topic sentence?

This should be submitted in an essay of 500-650 words.