The revision assignment for Exploratory A is to cut 25% of your 1st draft. Throw it away. Don't use the ideas in that section. Then, expand it outwards to at least 800 words for your 2nd draft. Your 2nd draft should also demonstrate the ideas about paragraphing that we discussed in class today.
What to cut? One good approach is to look for the main focus, the main points of your story and work with just them, cutting out the chafe that isn't as important, then expanding the main points in more detail when you rewrite.
To do this, sit down with a printed copy of your draft. Figure out the number of lines in your paper, then cross out 25% of those lines. I want to be able to see where whole sentences or long phrases have been removed, not that just words have been changed here and there. It must be obvious that you are deleting ideas/events in your paper.
Revision Assignment for Exploratory A, Draft 2
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