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Analyze drafting activities<\/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

According to Elbow, the best way to accomplish deep thinking is a series of drafts which 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] learns 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 end up when working on an essay draft.  And that's a good thing.<\/p>\nThis is the reason that writing assignments are so common in higher education: they develop a deep level of thinking that's only possible through this process.\n

What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\n