Alrighty, the rough draft!
This assignment can be made really easy if you did a thorough job on the outline assignment that was previously due. My group made a great decision writing as much as we could before the rough draft was due.
First Step: Writing. I know it is a huge task but you just have to sit down and do it. Whether your group has decided to write it as a whole or you are working on an individual section, the sooner you get that done the better off you are.
My group decided to write the rough draft as a whole. This saved us a lot of time on editing because the style was consistent throughout the entire document. The burden is also not quite as large because you don’t feel that the responsibility of a whole section is on your shoulders.
Second step: Editing. DO NOT LEAVE THIS UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE!!! This is the most important part of a technical class, editing the document. You won’t get the rough draft back until after the final draft is due so be sure that you get editing done now. That way if a group member does not agree with certain changes you will have time in and out of class to discuss the paper as a group.
*Hint: My group went at talked to Dr. Fricke during his office hours. If you don’t go and see Dr. Fricke there is no way that you will know how your paper is going until it is already to late. Take advantage of the extra help that is available.
The group meeting for the writing of the rough draft is also a great time to work on the presentation! You already have everyone there you might as well get as much done as possible.
The hardest part of writing the rough draft for my group was determining the citation style. Make sure you have a set formula that you do not change. We also had a lot of internet websites, so an MLA work cited arrangement would have been very difficult to keep consistent. The group chose instead to use the footnote style of citations.
A lot of the formatting, even with citations, depends on your audience. My group decided to include as much information as possible because we wanted to impress our audience with how much information we had gathered. We hoped that this would build the audience’s trust and that the proposal would go over more smoothly.
This is the Rough Draft that we turned into Dr. Fricke.
Here are the progress memos that we turned in to Dr. Fricke:
Katie’s Progress Memo for Rough Draft
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