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English 306: Expository Writing

Assignment One - 

Planning and Drafting

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Once the initial period of invention is completed, you should review what you have learned about the topic and start to plan your essay.  Planning requires you to put your ideas into a coherent, purposeful order appropriate to your readers; drafting challenges you to find the words that will be understandable and interesting for those readers.  Invention continues as you draft, for you will continue to make further discoveries about your topic as you work. But drafting requires you to shift your focus from generating new ideas and gathering further information to forging new and meaningful relations among your ideas and information. 

1.  Formulate a tentative introduction and thesis statement, around which you organize an essay.  Of course this may be revised later on, so remember that it is not indelible. Write one or two sentences that could serve as a strong, explicitly stated, and appropriately qualified thesis statement. Consider using a forecast statement to introduce some key points which assert a clear and strong judgment. 

An evaluation of the music played on WXYZ reveals that most songs depict sex vulgarly, sanction the abuse of women and police officers, promote gang violence, and encourage the purchasing and selling of illicit drugs.   

It is evident from the above evaluative thesis that the writer has thought not only about the introduction but also about the major sections of the paper, each of which will discuss one of the criticisms mentioned in the thesis. Additionally, the thesis is appropriately qualified because some would agree that songs depicting crude sex, encouraging abuse of women and police, and fostering gang violence and illicit drugs can be criteria used in judging  whether or not a radio station is presenting an appropriate form of music to a mass audience. Finally, the thesis asserts a clear and strong judgment on the subject matter.

2.   Using your getting started notes, make a brief outline to refocus your ideas.  You can note on your outline where you plan to plan to address opposing arguments.

3.    Use the outline as a guide as you draft.   

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