What is Drafting?

Drafting refers to the process of revisiting and correcting a text to improve the structure and the
content.

Why is Drafting Important?

It can help to alleviate anxiety around staring down the blank page.
It can helps organize ideas into a structure that makes logical sense.

Rules for Drafting

Outline Your Topic
As you're jotting down ideas for your writing, start thinking about your core topic.
Start thinking about the who, what, when, why, and where of your topic.

GASP
Genre: It is the form your writing will take and the caracteristics you need to follow for
reaching a genre.
Examples of general genders:

Short stories, poetry, scriptwriting, novels, creative non-fiction

Academic writing gender:
Essays, reports, and research papers.
Examples of creative writing genres include: Comedy, romance, tragedy, horror,
science fiction, etc.
Audience: is the people your writing is intended for.
Style: It refers to how you will convey your ideas or topic.
There are seven key writing styles:

Narrative writing
Technical writing
Persuasive writing
Expository writing
Personal writing
Analytical writing
Creative writing
Descriptive writing
Purpose: It is the intention of your writing.
Example:

To educate
To describe
To express feelings
To solve a problem

Planning
it helps your work to gain more structure. When you already have your core topic, your genre,
audience, style, and purpose you can start planning.

Ignore Small Details

Avoid to write some sentences and correct them untill they are perfect, instead writing to reach
fluency in your text.

Drafting Skills
Skimming and scanning: It is necessary to find errores.
Sentence construction: Sentence structure is something you can monitor and edit during
drafting.
Research skills: Research is essential to allow you to fill in any content gaps.
Vision/ planning: you need to see if your writing is follow and expressing your Topic and your
planning effectively.
Editing and self-critique: you must be able to edit your own work without too much and You
should be able to critique yourself and identify where you've gone wrong.

Drafting Example
The first draft/ preliminary drafting: the first phase of jotting down ideas
and thoughts.

Structural drafting: where the ideas get organized into a basic structure.

Rough drafting/ work-in-progress drafting: where you completed a rough

version of the completed document.

Final drafting: when you are happy with your work and submit the final draft

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