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Producing the Roughly Final Draft |
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Rough cutting the raw draft is an absorbing activity commanding the largest portion of the QUICK WRITING PROCESS timetable. Now, a second reading will reveal the gaps left by cutting repetitious, tangential, undeveloped, and inconsistent material, and combining related points. You will discover the need for transitions, a good example to crystallize an idea, and new material to reenforce the internal coherence of your argument. This second reading, especially with the constructive feedback of an objective reader, gives you the opportunity to develop a broader perspective for the conclusion, and then to transform your thesis into the complete introduction. You establish the unity of your paper, memo, or report. Finally, you attend to the vitality of the language, integrating style and argument on the word, sentence, and paragraph levels. The roughly final draft (on the following right-hand pages) has only a little more material than I'll need for my position paper for the dean. There is still some room to cut, combine, and add new material, as in passages (A) through (J) on the left-hand facing pages that follow. But the goal is to use all the remaining time, except what you have reserved for proofreading, to unify the clearest, most powerful product.
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