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Draft your profile.

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By this point, you have done a lot of research and writing

to develop something interesting to say about a subject;
to devise a plan for presenting that information;
to identify a role for yourself in the essay;
to explore your perspective on the subject.

Now stitch that material together to create a draft. As you do so, you will notice that some of the sentences you have written based on the sentence strategies in this chapter feel awkward or forced. Revise them, keeping the content but putting the ideas into words and sentence structures that feel natural to you. The next two parts of this Guide to Writing will help you evaluate and improve your draft.