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I’ve attached my writing assignment to be revised based on the description below. By completing this assignment, you will: Your job is to perform a substantial revision of one of your first three major writing assignments, using your classmates’ feedback and the rhetorical concepts you have learned so far as guides to enhance your writing. Your ultimate goal is to make your revision into the absolute best piece of writing you can manage. This revision should be closer to achieving its goals and engaging its readers than anything else you have written this semester. To complete this assignment, you will need first to select the major writing assignment that you will revise. Then, you will give and receive peer review feedback in this unit’s Peer Review assignment. Your classmates’ responses to your work should be your starting place. If they have done a good job, your classmates will give you plenty to work with! You should also use all relevant feedback from your instructor as a guide to revision. This assignment requires significant revision. That means that it will not be enough to simply edit your punctuation, run spellcheck, add a quotation or two, and come up with a new title. So, if you aren’t simply editing your prose, what should you be doing in revision? This is where the rhetorical concepts that you’ve learned in class so far will help. Let’s recap. You have learned about: Each of these concepts can help guide you thinking in revision. For instance, you might consider the audience you are invoking in your writing. What can you count on your audience to know or believe already? What might you have to explain to them further? Likewise, you might think about genre. Is your writing closer to a narrative? If so, you might want to take a close look at your use of tactile details, dialogue, scene-setting, and characterization — the tools of narrative. If your writing is an argument, you may want to focus on using claims and reasons why, and on anticipating your readers’ objections and any alternate perspectives on your issue. Finally, you might think about your goal or purpose in your writing. Ultimately, what sort of reaction are you hoping to get from any potential readers? What is the message you want to send? What aspects of your subject need to be explored? Let these questions guide your work. You will gain many more ideas about where to focus your revision in this unit’s mini-lectures, as well as in your work on your Writer’

s Journal. Good luck revising! When you submit this assignment, include a brief cover letter (no more than 300 words) that answers the following questions: Include your cover letter as a comment on your upload — as a separate document. Your cover letter will not count for or against your grade, but will help your instructor respond best to your writing. At this point in your writing process, the length of your writing is less important than its effect: you want your writing assignment to achieve its goals, whatever length that takes. In many cases, this revision will be significantly longer than the original assignment — although length is not necessarily a sign of quality. As always, make sure to fully explore your subject, using development strategies that help you support, clarify, and extend your focus. Use MLA guidelines for document design. This includes using 1-inch margins, double-spaced type, a page number in the upper right corner, and a Works Cited page. Remember, titles are rhetorical: make sure that your revision has a title that helps the piece achieve its goals. To allow your instructor the ability to post marginal commentary, you must submit this assignment as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file. You can save files in these formats with most word processors, including Web-based programs like , , and . If you are using a web-based file storage system like or , be sure to learn exactly how to transfer files from your storage system to Canvas. Whenever you use sources, cite them using MLA in-text and end-of-text guidelines for citation. This includes placing the quoted material in quotation marks, clearly indicating the author of the work, and providing a page number for the quotation, if applicable.Include a Works Cited page with an entry for each source that you referred to in the main text. Use MLA guidelines to create your Works Cited page. For examples and discussion of how to work with sources in writing, see the chapters on “Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism” and “MLA Style.” You can expect your instructor to provide substantive response and feedback to your assignment within 6 days of the deadline. Please review all instructor feedback, including marginal commentary, which you can access by clicking “View Feedback” once your assignment has been graded. You should use your instructor’s feedback to as a guide to any further revision of this piece for your portfolio, should you choose to include it.