Prepare: Read the instructions for the Week 3 Personal Essay - Draft Assignment.

Reflect: Reflecting on your work in the course, begin writing your draft.

Write: As part of the writing process, you are expected to reflect on your work and revise and edit accordingly. It is also useful to establish a community of learners in which you help edit and proofread each other's papers. This reciprocal process will help you identify areas of strength and weakness in others' writing as well as reflect on your own work and perhaps discover similar mistakes. For this week, you will be performing a peer review on your Personal Essay - Draft before you submit it to your instructor on Day 7.

Please view the video Attaching Documents to Discussions for guidance on attaching word documents in your discussion post.

For this discussion

Write a two page draft of your personal essay.

The draft should be double-spaced.

Either (a) upload the draft of your personal essay (.doc format) as a new thread, making sure the document includes your name and title of paper, or (b) create a new thread in which you copy and paste your essay into the body of your post (again, be sure to include a working title).

Respond to Peers: After posting your draft

Please review one draft written by one classmate who has not yet received feedback. Your peer's draft will be posted under Discussion 2 just as you have done.

Respond to your classmate, complete the "Peer-Review Template" on his or her draft, and upload it (.doc format).

Please view the video Downloading a Document for guidance on accessing the "Peer-Review Template."

Your feedback must be comprehensive, detailed, and constructive in order to receive good credit for this assignment. Please do not comment on grammatical issues.

Please view the video Accessing Feedback in the Gradebook for guidance on how to review your instructor's feedback when the post is graded.