English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 47

See if you can fill in the missing words in the following explanation of Gene's first draft.
1. Gene presents his ______________ in the first sentence and then crosses it out and revises it right away to make it read smoothly and clearly.
2. Notice that he continues to accumulate specific supporting details as he writes the draft. For example, he crosses out and replaces "a long time" with the more specific __________; he crosses out and replaces "short breaks" with the more specific ____________.
3. There are various misspellings-for example, ______________.
Gene doesn't worry about spelling at this point. He just wants to get down as much of the substance of his paragraph as possible.
4. There are various punctuation errors, especially the run-on and the fragment near the ( beginning, middle, end ) ___________ of the paragraph.
5. Near the close of his paragraph, Gene can't think of added details to insert, so he simply prints "___________" as a reminder to himself for the next draft.