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Identify Drafting Activities\"Graphic<\/h2>\r\nWe're ready to dive into the process of writing, proper.\r\n\r\nAs we do, consider these observations from Dr. Pat Thomson, from the School of Education at The University of Nottingham.\r\n
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There is a strong temptation to send things off too early<\/span>. Finishing a first draft usually feels like a win \u2013 even a triumph. You didn\u2019t know that it was going to be possible to write that much and here it is \u2013 all your words in one place. You rush to get it to your professor and then wait impatiently for the response. And when it comes, it suggests major revisions\u2026 Corrections beyond editing? This is a disaster. I am hopeless. The thesis\/paper is doomed. I will never finish. The professor\u00a0is an unfeeling monster. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not true. All it takes is revision, some of which could have been done in the first place if we hadn\u2019t felt so darned elated that we\u2019d actually produced a text.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But on the other hand\u2026some people are feel deeply\u00a0that their writing isn\u2019t going to be good enough, now in the first draft, and probably ever. \"StudentAll of the research on writer\u2019s block<\/span><\/span> suggests that people who aim for perfection the first time round are likely to seriously inhibit their writing.\u00a0They agonize over phrases, work on a first sentence until they can\u2019t face it any more, take weeks to get a few pages written to their impossibly high expectations. We often see this kind of person characterized in movies \u2013 the unsuccessful writer who begins confidently on a first sentence but some hours later is surrounded by crumpled-up papers and sits despondently, staring sadly at a blank screen. Academic writers do this too.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Part of the problem seems to be that in conversations about academic writing we don\u2019t talk enough about the inevitability of the crappy first draft and the importance of revising. We don\u2019t suggest that it takes more than one go to reach the levels of polished prose that we admire. But really \u2013 let me reiterate \u2013 it doesn\u2019t happen straight away. If we just read finished articles and never see work in progress \u2013 and how many of us actually do get to see the work of experienced writers along the way \u2013 then we have no idea how much revising good academic writers actually do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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