Overview In Exercise C you'll write a formal business email to me, with a copy to members of your writing group, laying out your plan for revising your rough draft. This plan will serve as a roadmap as you begin your revision process.
To gather ideas for your revision plan, follow the suggestions of Joseph Harris in Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts. Harris writes,
"My aim is. . . to describe revising as a knowable practice, as a consistent set of questions you can ask of a draft of an essay that you are working on:
- What is your project? What do you want to accomplish in this essay? (Coming to Terms)
- What works? How can you build on the strengths of your draft? (Forwarding)
- What else might be said? How might you acknowledge other views and possibilities? (Countering)
- What's next? What are the implications of what you have to say? (Taking an Approach) (99)."
Learning Objectives - Develop your ability to step outside your own writing and question it effectively
- Practice a new genre: business email
Writing Process- Review Andrea Lunsford's advice about the conventions of email on pp. 37-38 and her discussion of levels of formality on pp. 146-147 of Easy Writer.
- Write at least 250 words responding to Harris's revision questions and spelling out what you intend to do to improve your draft.
- Send the memo to me and to members of your writing group.
- Your email should be at least 250 words long.
- This assignment should be in the format of a business email.
- Print out a copy of this email (Exercise C) and submit it to the instructor. In addition, include it in your folder with the final draft of Essay Three.
Grading- I will grade this exercise using a scoring guide based on a 10-point scale.
- I will return the exercise with brief comments.
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