What is the a rough draft about? My thought of what I read?

Question

I have these assignment readings from my book for my Engl 1a, and I have to read them and give a rough draft, final draft and finally an essay. So, is the rough draft and essay my thoughts of what I read or do I explain to the reader what I just read? I am a little confused.

Answer 1

The rough draft is just you writing what you want to say. You're not worrying about spelling, punctuation, or doing too much editing. Just blurting it out onto paper (or the computer as may be the case).

After the rough draft, you take what you've done and start making corrections and edits. You take your thoughts and re-word them for clarity, perhaps reorganize the flow of your paper.

You do this over and over until you are satisfied with it. I never called this the final draft, but it sounds like that's what your instructor is. To me, the final draft is the essay, hence the world "final." Obviously your instructor has a different feeling about that.

Answer 2

A rough draft is basically your first attempt at writing the essay. After you have your thoughts together and have a pretty good idea of what you want to write about (generally you'll have been given a topic from the teacher), you just sit down, and write the essay. This first version of your writing is your "rough draft." From there you'll edit it, change things, take things out, add things in, and generally make it better until you really like it. At that point it has become your "final draft." The final draft is basically your essay. You'll make a few, final changes, then what you at last turn in is your essay.

Answer 3

A rough draft is basically the first draft. It's where you're going through and writing without putting a lot of thought into spelling or grammar. I've never heard of a teacher asking for a final draft and then an essay. Sounds to me like the final draft is basically the second draft where you've gone through and cleaned up spelling and grammar errors and made other edits. Then the final essay would be the finished product.

Answer 4

You are preparing to write an essay. After reading the assignment the teacher wants you to prepare. The first "rough draft" is basically an outline of the highlights of what you just read combined with your ideas of what you intend to write in the essay. The final draft will be the layout of your essay as well as the details in all it's entirety. Then you will want to have it proofed or edited by someone you trust. This is where spelling and flow of idea's, incoherence, ramblings, and so forth will be discovered and where you can do your rewording or rephrasing...or regrouping of ideas. The "essay" itself should be perfect in every way from spelling to presentation. And remember presentation will be remembered. A simple clear binder with a title page and personal info will help make it easier to read. And that is always a good thing.

Answer 5

a rough draft is simply your thoughts of what you thought the book was about in paragraph form. Rough meaning all your thoughts are not put together very well and draft meaning it is not you final paper. Your final draft will be free of grammatical errors, i.e. run ons, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, etc. Once you have read over it and it makes sense and it is well written then i would turn it in. An essay is probably going to be a shorter version of the final draft.

Answer 6

The rough draft is basically what you are writing about. It contains the majority of your text and doesn't really need to change that much. It's like writing your essay, but with two more chances...you get it back, re-read and say "I can do this better"...then you write the final draft etc.

Answer 7

Rough draft = your first version of your assignment. It usually needs refining, polishing, and maybe some more research, which depends on your assignments.

I don't know what the difference is between final draft and essay ... I work with a writer's club and write sometimes myself, but this is for publishing, not school, so the terminology may be a little different, I guess.

Answer 8

Rough draft is reflection and your understanding of reading the book say for the first time.
Final draft is your writing about the book you read as many time as with your full understanding of that book.
Essay is a peace of writing on that particular subject, meaning expressing your own input.

Answer 9

Sorry but personally I made it half way before I got bored. Your writing isn't really good. It sounds like your talking to your friend and it doesn't have much of a plot like at all! Also horrible chapter name and you can't put twilight in your story unless you get consent. Even if your not publishing it. And don't write because your bored. Writing is a hobby and some may even call it a passion as do I. And trust me you have no writing talent. I am a very young author (or soon to be) and I am 13 and can do way better than that so sorry! No offense for all of this but it SUCKS! ~Oh and I can write something that isn't about twilight! I was trying to help you and at least I have writing talent. Just because I like twilight doesn't mean that I write stories about it. Oh and if your old enough to be talked to as an adult then you should be old enough to take criticism. You have no writing potential so dont try, And I would have emailed you an example of my work but you dont have your email and you probably would have stolen it.

Answer 10

As far as I know, "rough draft" would refer to your first attempt at the essay, something to help you work out your ideas, and the kinks in your writing. After you get your points down, and tie them all together, you can read over and edit (better yet, get somebody else to read over and edit).
Do you have any guidelines for the essay itself? Topics, thesis ideas, etc? I always find it helps to do some brainstorming before you get started; an idea of the main points of your argument, find evidence/proofs in the form of quotations in the book you've been assigned. Hope this helps.