In some sense, drafting begins the moment you start thinking about a topic. At some point, however, you attempt an actual written draft.

No matter how good your planning, investigating, and organizing have been, chances are you will need to return to these activities as you draft. This fact of life leads to the first principle of successful drafting: be flexible. If you see that your organizational plan is not working, do not hesitate to alter it. If some source now seems irrelevant, leave it out, even if you went to great lengths to obtain it. Throughout the drafting process, you may need to refer to points you have already written about. You may learn that you need to do more research, that your whole thesis must be reshaped, or that your topic is still too broad and should be narrowed further.

Considering Disabilities: A talking draft

Video Prompt: It's hard to delete things

Video Prompt: You just have to start

Student Writing: Early draft (Emily Lesk)

Student Writing: Final draft (Emily Lesk)

Tutorial: Word processing