14.1 Lesson 14 Essentials Video: Drafting
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Lesson 14 Essentials Video: Drafting
Watch the video below to see how students like you generate momentum in their first drafts.
Students in order of appearance: Phillip, Deonta, Gretchen, Amanda, Karina, Abigail, Yadirys, Dan
Exercise: Integrate the video
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Gretchen sums up the “big idea” of this Lesson on drafting when she says, “I’ll start to type on my computer—and it’s usually one sentence. I’ll sit there with one sentence. And then I’ll have a couple sentences, and then once I get the first paragraph, I just keep going and going. It doesn’t always connect. But as long as I have writing, I’ll feel good, like I’m getting somewhere. I just have to have something written down.”
Gretchen’s first draft is all about developing confidence and “feeling good.” And yet, the other students in this Lesson have a slightly different approach to building momentum in their first drafts. Whatever your own approach, you can use that drafting momentum to carry you through the later stages of your essay.