Instead of submitting your draft to your instructor, you’ll be sharing it in a discussion forum with your peers. You’ll be getting comments from your group members on your draft this time.

This discussion assignment has 2 graded components, and 2 due dates.

• The 2000 word draft will be due Monday.
• Your replies to ALL other members of your group will be due the following Friday.

Word count is the name of the game, here. If the document you submit reaches 2000 or more words, then you’ll get full credit for that component of the assignment.  If it doesn’t, you won’t.

Drafts are supposed to be a mess, so don’t worry too much if yours isn’t perfect yet.  Yes, you’ll be sharing them with several other people next week, but theirs will be messy, too.  You’ll have a very sympathetic audience, believe me.  Don’t worry about the formalities of editing or formatting yet.  In-text citation isn’t necessary, either, but I would like to see SOME indication of sources as they are used in the draft.  Putting notes like (Source 1) or (McMillan source) is fine.  Or you can go ahead and do the whole MLA in-text citation, if you prefer.

Since this is a working draft, feel free to stop at certain points and make notes to yourself, or ask questions of the people who will be reading it.  Skipping around in the order of things is perfectly fine, too.  Just put something like “insert more research about population changes here” and keep rolling.  It helps if these notes are a differentcolor, font, or size than the rest of the draft, just so we don’t get confused.

Unlike earlier drafts, we will be sharing this version with others for Peer Review in the next module.  While this is still considered a rough draft, it should have a little more polish to it, since you’ve had time to comb through the versions you’ve already done for a bit of refinement.

No late work will be accepted for the rough draft posting.  If you don’t have a draft that reaches the minimum word count before the deadline, I encourage you to go ahead and submit what you have.  You won’t get credit for this assignment, but you will be eligible to get feedback from others next week, and earn points for reviewing theirs.

You’ve been assigned to a group based on the Peer Review Sign-up Sheet you all completed recently.  Click the link to remember who’s in your group.  The peer review responses for ALL group members will need to be submitted before midnight, FRIDAY.

You are not required to comment directly on your group members’ drafts, though you are welcome to. Please use the “Comment” feature rather than changing their text in the essay body, so that it’s clear where your comments appear.  To comment using Google Docs, highlight the passage you’d like to comment on, and right-click your mouse.  You will see the option for “comment” to appear.  (This is what I do when I grade your essays.)

You ARE required to complete the following questionnaire for all of your group members who submitted a draft on time.  Reply to their post with the answers to the following questions.

Reviews can be completed, even if you didn’t submit your own draft.  Reviews are half of the point value for this assignment.

Grading Rubric