Discussion 1 Prepare: As you prepare to write your first discussion for this week

Discussion 1

Prepare: As you prepare to write your first discussion for this week, do the following:
Review Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of Essentials of College Writing.
Review the Grading Rubric for this discussion.
Reflect: Take time to reflect on the personal essay you have been working on as well as the journals that you have been writing. Think about the different genres that are described in Chapters 6, 7, and 8.

Write: In your initial post for this discussion
Describe how point of view, structure, and tone differ in the three different types of genres explained in Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of the textbook.
Explain which of the genres the journal entry most closely resembles and why.
Ask your peers a question you have about this week’s assigned reading.
Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length and posted by Day 3. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Read the instructions for the Week 3 Personal Essay – Draft Assignment.

Reflect:Reflecting on your work in the course, begin writing your draft.
Write: As part of the writing process, you are expected to reflect on your work and revise and edit accordingly. It is also useful to establish a community of learners in which you help edit and proofread each other’s papers. This reciprocal process will help you identify areas of strength and weakness in others’ writing as well as reflect on your own work and perhaps discover similar mistakes. For this week, you will be performing a peer review on your Personal Essay – Draft before you submit it to your instructor on Day 7.Please view the videoAttaching Documents to Discussionsfor guidance on attaching word documents in your discussion post.
For this discussion

Write a two page draft of your personal essay.
The draft should be double-spaced.
Either (a) upload the draft of your personal essay (.doc format) as a new thread, making sure the document includes your name and title of paper, or (b) create a new thread in which you copy and paste your essay into the body of your post (again, be sure to include a working title).