Workshopping Draft

I believe a draft used in the process of workshopping should have had some thought and work put into it. Although workshopping is meant to receive peer review for improvement of one’s work, a true idea of what the final paper will consist of will help to provide more effective advice. If the writer were to only “throw together” ideas, the feedback would most likely be more general such as the addition of detail or examples. However, if the text being evaluated was written with more thought and care, the individual workshopping the draft could provide extremely productive feedback which is specific to certain aspects of the paper. Although it is good for a writer to start by simply throwing out ideas and then organizing them, this should be done well before a workshopping draft is composed. Therefore, when one looks over a draft while workshopping it should appear to be a clearly organized paper with a thesis and distinct paragraphs. This is not the final paper but it should still have effort put into it so that detailed suggestions can be made which should make it more successful in the end.

If I were to workshop Essay R, I would have many general suggestions for the writer. Because the paper was filled with so many mistakes, it would be very difficult to provide specific corrections for the entire essay. However, I would definitely suggest they work on all aspects of grammar taking special note of fragments, punctuation, commas and the switching of tenses. I would also suggest each paragraph have a distinct purpose relative to the thesis which needs to be stated in the opening paragraph. In addition, I would ask that more factual information be provided verses opinion especially concerning wrestling in the 80’s. The last suggestion I would give the writer is to add more similarities as the assignment did call for comparison and contrasting.