Dynes - Draft Process - # 2

Justine Dynes

AML 4101 – Drafts

December 6, 2008

Drafts

As writing research papers has never been a strength of mine, I went through a fair amount of drafts before I reached what I have now. My first draft was only a few pages long and had only my own ideas down on it, no outside information and no information from the book. It was the first draft, but I knew it could never work to even becoming the final draft. Still keeping one or two of my own ideas, I scrapped the paper and started new, this time adding in two of my sources: a scholarly article and the book itself. This draft was, of course, not going to work out either. I decided to re-research, looking up things and ideas that were only remotely attached to my subject area.

Finally, I hit on an article about sororities and the idea flew from there. I already had a nice chunk of paper written, so I reworked a few things and added in this new idea. Even so, the newest draft I have does not begin to cover what I would like to cover. Once the drafts started being passed around, I came to a block as to where to go with the idea. How to write more on it without deleting too much or going too off topic? This part of the drafts has always been the point where I get stuck and where I am never sure how to continue. In the conference, I hope to get some more information, see a new side to how others feel about this idea.