Write with purpose
Plan, draft, test and revise an explanatory feature whose claims, structure and language serve a specific audience.
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Preparation: Start with a question you can explain to another person. You do not need to know essay terminology. The supplied fictional library case lets you practice without finding external sources.
Begin anywhere, skip familiar work or change task depth. Skipping preserves work and does not count as completion.
0/6 investigations completed. Portfolio: not submitted. These records do not certify proficiency.
Lesson sequence
Each lesson opens on its own page. Choose a lesson to read, write and save your work.
Make a reader able to act
Adapt the same information for two audiences without changing facts or hiding a limitation.
Build a paragraph that goes somewhere
Reorder and revise sentences so that each advances a paragraph’s controlling idea.
Make evidence do a job
Integrate an accurately attributed quotation or number and explain the inference it supports.
Change the sentence, change the emphasis
Revise sentence structure, reference and punctuation to clarify relationships while preserving intended meaning.
Use a reader’s confusion as evidence
Prioritize substantive revisions from specific feedback and explain which suggestions to accept, adapt or reject.
Let readers trace what you borrowed
Distinguish quotation, paraphrase and original inference, then provide enough source information for a reader to trace each borrowed claim.
An explanatory feature a reader can use
Create a feature explaining what the temporary library hall can and cannot offer. Help a named audience make a decision, using the supplied packet faithfully and documenting your revisions.
Course practice consists of the six investigations and the portfolio. The project rubric makes the quality expectations explicit; human review remains separate.
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