{"id":658,"date":"2016-06-01T15:13:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/?post_type=chapter&p=658"},"modified":"2016-07-19T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:22:57","slug":"outcome-drafting-2-5","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/chapter\/outcome-drafting-2-5\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Drafting","rendered":"Outcome: Drafting"},"content":{"raw":"

Analyze drafting activities<\/h2>\r\n
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Writing is a way to end up thinking something you couldn\u2019t have started out thinking. - Peter Elbow, Writing Without Teachers<\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

According to Elbow, the best way to accomplish deep thinking\u00a0is 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]\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. \u00a0And that's a good thing.<\/p>\r\nThis 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.\r\n

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