Drafting

Developing a Workable Plan, Talking out Ideas, Building Momentum, Incubation versus Procrastination, Narrowing a Topic, Developing a Thesis Statement, Topic-Restriction-Illustration, Developing Support, Threading a Thesis, Following Conventions, Working Outline, Formal Outline, Topical Outline, Audience Analysis

• Building Momentum – Modified Freewriting: Ask students to open a Word document, turn their monitors off, and write for ten minutes. If they can’t get distracted by sentence-level details, they may find an initial momentum to help them start drafting.

• Rhetorics as Resources: The Academic Writer (Chapter 10), Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age (Chapter 4), Harbrace Guide to Writing (Chapter 3)

Tags: drafting, rhetoric texts, writing process