CHAPTER 4: SCAFFOLDING DRAFTING AND REVISING

Your outline scaffolds your first draft; your first draft scaffolds your final paper.

The Chapter 2 scaffold provides you with a rich, well-structured outline which becomes your first draft. Chapter 4 describes how your outline scaffolds your first draft. Your outline already contains the topic sentence and the concluding sentence for each paragraph, which constrain what supporting sentences you can add to finish the paragraph. Once you finish your first draft, it then becomes a scaffold to help you complete your paper’s final version. Chapter 4 also describes scaffolds to help you revise your finished product once an editor asks you to respond to reviewer suggestions.