Drafting: Fresh Take

  • Explain strategies for starting your essay
  • Explain how to turn an outline into a draft
  • Examine why writing multiple drafts is important

From Outline to Draft

Consider this guidance from an English professor. She’s talking about a specific essay assignment for her students, but the general concepts of the video apply to all writing situations. Professor Pell’s best advice is to not write the sections of your paper in order. Instead, take advantage of the outline to skip around to the parts that are easiest to develop first, and that will have the biggest impact of your paper overall.

You can view the transcript for “Moving from Outline to Draft” here (opens in new window).

While you’ll have different sections of your paper, the concept still applies. Decide for yourself what order will be most effective to write in, and free yourself up to put off the difficult parts until last!

Writing Multiple Drafts

Read the article “7 Benefits of Using Drafts and Revisions in Your Writing” from Medium to understand why writing multiple drafts can help improve your writing.