Remember: The working draft is a step in the process of developing a finished essay. You have not failed in any way if your working draft is deeply flawed as an essay. You have failed completely if you don’t submit a working draft by the time it is due. It is an essential step in the process of developing an essay. Skipping that step is not an option. The working draft is required work. So remember: It doesn’t have to be "good," but it does have to be here, on-line or in the readers’ hands, when due. The penalties for a late working draft are serious. Please review them if you have forgotten. The minimum length for a working draft is 1,000 words of text. That includes all of the paragraphs of the essay, but does not include the title, date, and list of works cited.
Do the following in saving and uploading your essay:
1. Put your thesis thesis statement at the end, the very last thing in your document, labeled "Thesis Statement."
2. Save your working draft as a Web page. (The suffix for the file name should be .htm.) Save it under a filename consisting of your last name, all lowercase, followed without space by the number of the essay. When you save the file as a Web page or HTML document, your word processor should automatically insert the suffix ".htm" at the end of the filename. Check to make sure it does. So if your last name were Brown, you would save your first essay under the name "brown1.htm" and your second essay under the name "brown2.htm"--and so forth.
3. Upload your essay to the Pluto server by ftp before the time or class meeting when it is due or by the day it is due to be posted in the Syllabus. (See FTP Instructions on how to do this.)
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