{"id":138,"date":"2014-10-30T18:33:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/developmentalwriting\/?post_type=chapter&p=138"},"modified":"2017-09-06T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:22:16","slug":"assignment-drafting","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-introtowriting\/chapter\/assignment-drafting\/","title":{"raw":"Assignment: Drafting","rendered":"Assignment: Drafting"},"content":{"raw":"Although we have started our approach to writing as a process of stages, writing is not a linear or fixed method. Proficient writers would argue that writing is \"recursive\" in nature, which means it is not a series of steps, but instead a means of revisiting, and reworking what you've written until you reach an end point...although this end may likely elude perfection! \u00a0Debating if any writing is ever \"perfect\" is another conversation in itself. \u00a0For the purposes of academic writing, your goal might not be perfection, but it most certainly is completion.\r\n

The Recursive Nature of Writing<\/h2>\r\nDrafting can be thought of as your work through the recursiveness of the writing process. It is essential to the organization and flow of your paper. Once your general ideas are developed from the prewriting, initial draft, and reverse outline, writing out specific ideas and quotations can make the final writing process much easier. Each draft brings your writing process a little closer to the final product.\r\n\r\nIt is difficult for instructors to give a grade for drafting for it is not as easy as grading draft one and draft two. Drafting is likely the most under-appreciated aspect of writing for it is how you reveal to your writing self your progress from thoughts to the final paper. Proficient writers would also argue this is the most exciting and daunting stage of writing because it is where the writer struggles with their work . . . but in a good way.\r\n\r\nAlways write down any ideas you have in the drafting process. It is much easier to cut content from your paper than it is to work on adding content. If you collect all your resources, quotations, facts, ideas, and come up with your main point during the drafting process, your paper will show it. The idea is to provide yourself with as much information as possible in order to create a solid and well thought-out piece. Do less worrying and more writing.\r\n

Revising, Editing, Proofreading<\/h3>\r\nDrafting also concerns revising, editing, and proofreading.\r\n

Revising<\/h4>\r\n