More on Ideas Draft (read prompt first before reading this)

I think I did a decent job explaining the 3-stage drafting process for Paper #1 (idea draft, working draft, final draft), but let me tell you a bit more about how it relates to the work you've done so far.

Section I = continue & then present your research from the Discovery Task

Section II-III = expanded version of the Eryximachus column in the grid handout

Section IV = other column(s) in the grid handout, our discussions on Platonism

We've gone "past" this paper in our class discussions now; today's discussion served mainly to get you ready for Schwab's last lecture on Plato and his lectures on Aristotle. You know all the background you need, so it's a question of getting all the bits of close analysis down in the idea draft, fusing them together into a coherent whole in the working draft, and revising/improving that in the final draft.

IMPORTANT: The main purpose of the idea draft is to remove the fear of the blank Word document that will greet you as you write your first college paper. You've already done some of the thinking in class and in your homework, and this will allow you to do most of the rest of it so you can focus in the next drafts on writing well. So DON'T WORRY ABOUT COMPLETE SENTENCES OR SOUNDING LIKE YOU'RE SUPER-SMART. Just write in a way that's comfortable and easy for you.