If you are an experienced typist, you will probably type yourįirst draft. 1.5.5 Write your first draft in the way that is easiest and Your thesis statement a dozen times in the course of revising your essay. When you have finished yourįirst draft, re-read your thesis statement and ask if that is still what you are Keep comparing your thesis with your essay. Starts out promising one thing and ends by delivering something else. It's fine, it's usually good, when you decide to changeĭirection or emphasis if you know what you're changing and how.īut if you don't notice, it almost always leads to problems, as when your essay
Track of what you started to say and end up saying something else, withoutīeing aware of it. Write an essay is that you change your mind without realizing it, that you lose But one of the greatest dangers in trying to Not an external standard that somebody is imposing on you it is your decisionĪbout what you want to say. You can hold up to your essay to show what you are really saying. Yardstick to help you see where your essay is going.
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Remember that your trial thesis statement is a guide or a 1.5.4 Rewrite your thesis statement whenever you can make it aīetter guide for writing and revising your essay. That will help to clarify whatĭetails are important enough to pursue and what can be omitted. Thesis needs major revision and that you really want to take a differentĪpproach than you had originally planned. The whole shouldĭetermine the parts, not the parts the whole. Way to test and develop your trial thesis statement. Get down on paper what you want the whole essay to say. But it is equally important that you try to This will make yourįurther research much easier.
Will help define what you need to finish the essay. Will have a "shopping list" to bring to class or to the library that Doing so will save you a great deal of time because you Notes to yourself as to what you need to find and develop before you have aįinished essay. Stop to look for it as you write your draft. Put a note in brackets to remind yourself what you need, but don't Likewise with evidence that you haven't found If you're stumped, just put a note in brackets: ForĮxample, you may know that you need examples of several of your points. That you don't have all of the material you need for a finished essay. When you are writing your first draft you will probably find You can't write yet and try to finish a draft of the whole essay. Writing the body of your essay than trying to guess at what will make a good Start writing with the second or third paragraph It'sįairly obvious that this is a non-productive waste of time. Introductions, rejecting them all, and starting over each time. You can easily fall into the trap of writing dozens of Your essay will say, it is almost impossible to write an effective
Introduce an essay you haven't written yet? Until you see what the body of This is a difficult, and sometimes an impossible, task. One of the reasons why many of us have trouble writing a firstĭraft is that we try to write the essay beginning with the introduction. 1.5.2 When writing your first draft, don't worry about your You may have a lot of repetition in your first draft.
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If you change your mindĪbout how to say something, don't stop to cross it out, just write an improved Punctuation at all at this stage, just ideas. Ideas down on paper as quickly as you can. In writing the first draft of your essay, try to get as many 1.5.5 Write your first draft in the way that is easiest andġ.5.1 Write your first draft as rapidly as you can. 1.5.3 When writing your first draft, bracket those sections Writing a First Draft Discovering Ideas Handbook 1.5 Writing a First Draft 1.5.1 Write your first draft as rapidly as you can.
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