Ashford GEN 499 Week 4 Assignment

Rough Draft Review of Process Evaluation

[WLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Purpose:

The primary goal of this weekly assignment is to enable you to understand the revision process and revise your paper with the help of a writing specialist.

Prepare:

Step 1: Prepare a shortened version of your Final Paper (at least four pages) by including the following:

• Introduction paragraph and a thesis statement you developed for your Week 3 Assignment.
• Background information on the global societal issue you have chosen.
• A brief argument supporting at least two solutions to the global societal issue.
• Conclusion paragraph. Must document any information used from at least five scholarly sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (http://bpiwritingcenter.prod.acquia-sites.com/citing-within-your-paper) Note that you will need at least eight scholarly sources for your Final Paper in Week 5.

Step 2: After you have completed a rough draft of your paper, submit that draft to the Ashford Writing Center by using the instructions found in the Paper Review (http://writingcenter.ashford.edu/paper-review) page. Your paper will be returned within 24 hours, so give yourself enough time to complete and submit it prior to the due date.

Reflect:

Carefully review the revision letter and the margin comments that you see on your returned paper. Consider each of the suggestions provided to help you to revise your paper.

Write:

What You Need to Submit to Waypoint:

• Upload the PDF document that contains the feedback from the Writing Center specialist.
• Submit the journal assignment answering the following questions in at least 400 words:
• Identify the top three issues your writing specialist focused on in your rough draft (e.g., paragraph structure, proper use of quotations, thesis statement, etc.).
• In what ways were those issues surprising?
• Describe what you learned from some of the feedback your writing specialist provided as explanations.
• Was this feedback helpful?
• Evaluate the usefulness of the paper review tool. In what ways did this activity improve your academic writing skills?
• Will you use the Ashford Writing Center to review your work in the future? Why or why not?
• Identify Writing Center ideo Tutorials (https://writingcenter.ashford.edu/videotutorials) that you find most useful and explain why. Also, identify tutorial(s) you found least useful and explain why