Transcript Lesson 14 Essentials Video: Drafting

MALE STUDENT 1: I'll turn the internet off. I'll have my sources. I let people know don't bother me. And I just start typing.

MALE STUDENT 2: Well, when I write a first draft, I typically think about my time constraints and what else I have to do during that day. But I like to sit down and get my first draft all done at one time. I don't like to have to do it over multiple days because that's when I like to make my revisions and my edits. If I'm doing my whole first draft in one day before the paper, then I'm making my edits as I go along. And it takes a lot longer than it should.

FEMALE STUDENT 1: It's usually one sentence. And then I'll sit there with one sentence, and then I'll have a couple of sentences. And then once I get the first paragraph, then I just keep going and going. And it doesn't always connect. I'll go from one idea to another. But as long as I have writing, I'll feel good, like I'm getting somewhere.

FEMALE STUDENT 2: I have gone back to pen and paper because it's easiest for me to just go. I'm not so worried about punctuation and the red squiggly lines when you screw up on your screen.

FEMALE STUDENT 3: When I begin the whole drafting process, I just write. And I let my first draft be like terrible because it is my first draft. And I know I'm going to have to go back and edit it and proofread and all those things. So I just write. I mean, I'm not going to write horribly, but I just kind of let it flow. And then, I do not read—the same day that I feel like I'm done with my draft, I don't like reading it that same day. I like reading it the next day with fresh eyes.

FEMALE STUDENT 4: I don't necessarily have expectations for each draft. I just know in the first—