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Refer to this week's MyFoundationsLab overview and animations of these topics, if you have not yet mastered this week's module or would like more practice.

Brainstorm ideas for how you will organize your personal essay rough draft.

Write a rough draft of a 350- to 700-word personal essay, based on the topic you selected in Week 1.The final copy of this essay will be due in Week 3. Ensure that you practice with a variety of sentence styles and avoid fragments and run-on sentences. Your introductory paragraph should include a thesis statement.

Revise/edit your rough draft (RD) (even though it is a "rough draft" ) so instructor can ascertain what feedback is necessary. In other words, it may be your "rough draft," but write it as close to perfect as possible.

Submit your RD to the Plagiarism Checker located in the CWE of the UOPX Library. The completed report (PR)should note a plagiarism percentage of 5% or less. Since this is a personal essay, it will probably register 0%.

For this week's journal writing assignment, you will need to review "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts," by Bruce Catton in Ch. 11 of Patterns for College Writing from the assigned reading.

Write two journal entries of at least 175 words total that responds to at least two of the following:

Describe the sentence structures throughout the Grant and Lee essay. Are all the sentences structured the same, or do they vary? How would you account for the sentence structures either varying or staying the same in this essay?

Choose a paragraph from the Grant and Lee essay that contains at least three sentences. Is the paragraph organized around the development of a topic? Do you think the organization of that paragraph mirrors that of the entire essay? Explain.

Do you think the Grant and Lee essay was appropriately structured? Explain why or why not and discuss any sentences you thought vividly described Grant and Lee.