What do you mean second draft?

In high school, I’ll admit that I didn’t have the best writing process and that was mainly due to the fact that I didn’t really take my assignments as serious as I should have. In high school, I procrastinated a lot and whenever I had a writing assignment, I would usually do the assignment the day before it was due. Mainly my writing assignments in high school were your standard 5 paragraph persuasive essays. I usually didn’t have much of an interest in doing the assignment but knew that I had to do it or I would fail. I would wait the day before the assignment is due and sit down, put some thoughts together, and come up with an idea of what to write about. If I knew exactly what I was going to write about, the assignment wouldn’t usually take me very long to complete. After I would complete the assignment, I would read it over and search only for grammatical errors. Since I didn’t usually care too much about the assignment as a whole, I just wanted to make sure it sounded good and didn’t really care if I had enough information that was necessary. I just wanted to do the least amount of work possible for a passing grade.

As for doing peer reviews, I didn’t have any experience with peer reviews in high school at all. All of the writing assignments I did in high school were only meant to be completed and turned in to the teacher for a grade. In my ENC 1101 class that I took during the summer here at Florida State, we were required to bring in our first draft of the assignment and do what’s called a “workshop”. In the “workshop”, we would read other classmates papers and write notes on them to give our personal thoughts and tips. I personally feel that helped me a lot on my assignments because I think it’s always good to get someone else’s opinion on your writing, especially a fellow classmate. I hope that we will be able to do something similar to that during this semester because I really do think that it helps you improve your writing.