Use those main ideas as the headings for your outline. The first step is to decide what your main points will be. Once you have come up with some ideas for your paper, you will need to organize those ideas. Step 1: Figure out your main points and create the headings for your outline Creating an outline based on the principles outlined above can help you to put your ideas in a logical order, so your paper will have a stronger, more effective argument. Depending on the type of writing assignment, you might want to incorporate concepts and quotations from various other sources, but your interpretation of those ideas is still the most important element. When outlining your own paper, you will need to focus on your own ideas and how best to organize them. When you outline something someone else wrote, you are trying to represent their ideas and structure. The main difference between outlining a reading and outlining your own paper is the source of the ideas. If we just read finished articles and never see work in progress – and how many of us actually do get to see the work of experienced writers along the way – then we have no idea how much revising good academic writers actually do. But really – let me reiterate – it doesn’t happen straight away. We don’t suggest that it takes more than one go to reach the levels of polished prose that we admire. Part of the problem seems to be that in conversations about academic writing we don’t talk enough about the inevitability of the crappy first draft and the importance of revising.
We often see this kind of person characterized in movies – the unsuccessful writer who begins confidently on a first sentence but some hours later is surrounded by crumpled-up papers and sits despondently, staring sadly at a blank screen. All of the research on writer’s block suggests that people who aim for perfection the first time round are likely to seriously inhibit their writing. They agonize over phrases, work on a first sentence until they can’t face it any more, take weeks to get a few pages written to their impossibly high expectations. All it takes is revision, some of which could have been done in the first place if we hadn’t felt so darned elated that we’d actually produced a text.īut on the other hand…some people are feel deeply that their writing isn’t going to be good enough, now in the first draft, and probably ever.
And when it comes, it suggests major revisions… Corrections beyond editing? This is a disaster. You rush to get it to your professor and then wait impatiently for the response.
You didn’t know that it was going to be possible to write that much and here it is – all your words in one place. Finishing a first draft usually feels like a win – even a triumph. There is a strong temptation to send things off too early.
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