Drafting and Revising

Global and Local Concerns

Early Drafts

Think big and let the little things slide

Global or Higher-Order Concerns

•Thesis idea

•Content development

•Organization

•Style--paragraph level

Generating Ideas

improvise

Visualize Your Ideas

organize

Drafting

just do it

Local or Lower-Order Concerns

•Style--sentence level

•Transitions

•Language

•Complexity

•Editing--grammar and punctuation; spelling