Workshop Draft as a Genre

Workshop drafts are a compilation of ideas in the form of a paper. Although not nearly complete, this draft allows the writer's peers to look over basic grammatical errors, sentence structure, and of course content. It is almost impossible to go from nothing to the real deal, which is why, as students, we have been taught to write up at least one rough copy before we submit the final piece. This draft is not always pretty and is used to get an idea of the direction the writer wants to follow. The final is the cleaned up, edited, and perfectly understandable and ready to be turned in for credit or even publishing. The audience changes once the final draft is complete. Now it will be read by teachers who will mark it for grading, or the community who will decide if the piece of work gets across its point in an entertaining way.
If Essay R was given to me in a workshopping group, I would grab the nearest red pen and scribble away fixing grammatical and spelling errors, sentence structures, and content confusion. Hopefully after I was through with it, it was a little better for the next work shopper to critique.