Workshop Homework

1.) As a genre, workshop drafts have a few specifics as to what they look like. For instance, most workshop drafts may be more choppy, as the writer is just beginning the process of writing his paper. The draft may also contain grammatical errors that the writer may have overlooked or need rewording, due to it being his first draft. If the writer did a good job, however, the paper should mainly be a preliminary version of what the writer wants to achieve, basically being a written out outline.The audience for a workshop draft is the writer's fellow student as the purpose of a workshop is to get your peer's response in order to improve your paper. The teacher may also be included in the audience if he provides additional recommendations for the writer. A final draft differs from a workshop draft in its purpose and audience in that the final draft is your final version of your paper and is written for only your teacher. Also, a final draft is for a grade where as a workshop draft is not usually graded, atleast in my own experience.

2.) If I were to review Essay R in a workshop I would provide a few reccomendations. First, I would reccomend he looks back over his paper for grammatical errors, as there were many in the essay and it's a simple error to correct. I would also reccomend he provide more sources in his paper as he only cites a website, which has weak credibility. Referencing the WWE's website, for instance, would be a much better option. Another issue the paper had was that while the writer discussed present day wrestling throroughly, he barely touched upon wrestling of the 80's. Seeing how the purpose of the paper was to compare and contrast the two, the focus should be more equal. A last reccomendation would be to reorder some of his sentences and to scrap some of his paragraphs althogether in an effort to improve the flow of his paper, as it felt choppy and oddly ordered.