Workshopping Drafts

I believe a workshopping draft should be a well written draft that is probably already a second draft.  In the first draft, the writer should be able to freely write down their thoughts and ideas in an organized manner.  Then, the second draft is for reading over the writing and making sure it makes sense and there are not careless grammatical errors.  The workshopping draft should be a well written product the writer is confident sharing with other readers.  Then, the other readers are able to give constructive criticism or catch mistakes the writer may have overlooked to make the paper even better. The writer should be aware of who he or she is addressing as an audience and write the paper accordingly.  For example, if the writer was teaching first graders the importance of playground safety, he would probably write his paper much differently than if he was addressing a college newspaper on political affairs.   

The mistake the writer of "Essay R" made was that the draft we read in workshopping was what should have been his first draft.  He should have taken the time to read over the paper and correct punctuation and grammar errors that can just make the writer look lazy for not correcting themselves.  He also sounded like he was writing to young children when he should have realized his audience was of a more advanced age.