You must discuss the writing concepts and include examples of the concepts as you identify them in the writing samples we’ve read in class, with detailed explanation to support your ideas about the writing concepts. 

Your draft should run approximately 1,000 to 1,500 words or 4 to 6 double-spaced pages. You do not need a Works Cited unless you use sources from outside the class.

You might plan your draft something like this:

• Plan to discuss the concepts that are important for a writer to know when writing in different situations — which, if any, are more important for writers to consider than others, and which order of importance would you put them if any? Which concepts are connected most closely and can you provide an example?
• What are examples from the readings you can use to support your points about these concepts — for example, what are you planning to discuss about genre and can you use examples from the commencement addresses we read to support the points you’re making? 
• What did you say about the writing concepts in the assignments throughout Project One so far? What points did you make in those assignments that you might expand on for your draft?
• Are there ideas about writing you brought to this class that you can compare to your growing knowledge of the writing concepts and what strikes you as important to keep or to discard from that prior knowledge? 
• Why do you think the rhetorical situation is an important foundation of knowledge for writers? 
• What does a writer need to know when approaching a writing situation? What knowledge will that writer be able to draw upon to develop their writing for a situation they’ve never been in before? 
• What knowledge about writing matters most, based on what you’ve learned so far and what you think overall, for a writer to be successful?