English Skills with Readings 9th Edition by John Langan, Zoe Albright

Exercise 1

See if you can fill in the missing words in the following explanation of Gene’s first draft.

1. Gene presents his ______________ in the first sentence and then crosses it out and revises it right away to make it read smoothly and clearly.

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2. Notice that he continues to accumulate specific supporting details as he writes the draft. For example, he crosses out and replaces "a long time" with the more specific __________; he crosses out and replaces "short breaks" with the more specific ____________.

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3. There are various misspellings—for example, ______________.

Gene doesn’t worry about spelling at this point. He just wants to get down as much of the substance of his paragraph as possible.

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4. There are various punctuation errors, especially the run-on and the fragment near the (beginning, middle, end) ___________ of the paragraph.

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5. Near the close of his paragraph, Gene can’t think of added details to insert, so he simply prints "___________" as a reminder to himself for the next draft.

Step 1 of 5

on Writing a First Draft (27)

1.?topic sentence or main idea