{"id":269,"date":"2019-12-07T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/outcome-drafting-2-5\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:43:07","slug":"outcome-drafting-2-5","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/outcome-drafting-2-5\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Drafting","rendered":"Introduction to Drafting"},"content":{"raw":"

What you'll learn to do: evaluate drafting techniques<\/h2>\r\n
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Writing is a way to end up thinking something you couldn\u2019t have started out thinking.<\/p>\r\n

\u2014Peter Elbow, Writing Without Teachers<\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\""Draft"According to English Professor and author Peter Elbow, the best way to accomplish deep thinking\u00a0is through a series of drafts that come together to produce an emerging \u201ccenter of gravity\u201d that then translates into the main focus on the work. This process should be a holistic process, not a linear process. Elbow\u2019s reasoning behind this concept of multiple drafts follows the idea that, \u201cif [a writer]\u00a0learns to maximize the interaction among his own ideas or points of view, he can produce new ones that didn\u2019t seem available to him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In other words, it's difficult to predict where your thoughts and your argument will\u00a0end up when working on an essay draft. And that's a good thing. This is the reason that writing assignments\u00a0are so common in higher education: they develop a deep level of thinking that's only possible\u00a0through this process.<\/p>","rendered":"

What you’ll learn to do: evaluate drafting techniques<\/h2>\n
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Writing is a way to end up thinking something you couldn\u2019t have started out thinking.<\/p>\n

\u2014Peter Elbow, Writing Without Teachers<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\""Draft"According to English Professor and author Peter Elbow, the best way to accomplish deep thinking\u00a0is through a series of drafts that come together to produce an emerging \u201ccenter of gravity\u201d that then translates into the main focus on the work. This process should be a holistic process, not a linear process. Elbow\u2019s reasoning behind this concept of multiple drafts follows the idea that, \u201cif [a writer]\u00a0learns to maximize the interaction among his own ideas or points of view, he can produce new ones that didn\u2019t seem available to him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, it’s difficult to predict where your thoughts and your argument will\u00a0end up when working on an essay draft. And that’s a good thing. This is the reason that writing assignments\u00a0are so common in higher education: they develop a deep level of thinking that’s only possible\u00a0through this process.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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