What do you mean second draft?

In all honesty, my writing process had a pretty bad decline throughout my four years of high school. Going into my freshman year I felt as though I had a lot to prove after elementary school writing proved to be very remedial. So in my first writing assignment of my first high school semester I remember putting together a pretty good body of pre-writing. I had brainstormed topics and formed character maps and after those were done I wrote my first draft. This hard-working habit was relatively short-lived as most of my voluntary pre-writing was forgotten about from my second semester throughout graduation. For the bulk of my high school career I was writing my papers within a school week of the due date and didn't put too much effort into my later drafts. Unless we were peer editing, my revisions were not very good with the exception of catching my own typos or maybe re-wording something I thought looked awkward on the page. I am an firm believer of peer editing, it always helps to have a second perspective on an idea. Here and there I got a head start on some papers. My research paper during the fourth quarter of Junior year was definitely my pride and joy. I must have had 3-5 drafts of that paper and it paid off with a 96 for my final grade.

The use of crots is definitely something I have not experienced. Most of the time, my teachers would ask us to read the assigned book or passage and then form our drafts from there, citing the text as evidence and backup to our thesis. I didn’t have the opportunity to do much creative writing, research papers were a big portion of my high school writing assignments. I like using the crots as a base to our writing because it is just a free write of what we have as memories and it makes everyones’ writing full of detail. Instead of having to rely on exterior sources, the crots allow me to recall a particular memory and retell the situation or happening in my own words.