The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Writing

Writing Workshop #7Revising

In your first draft, you have produced ideas that are invaluable to your writing. But those ideas often are jumbled and unrefined—raw material really. The initial editing process, Revising, helps you put apples with apples. It helps you organize your ideas into coherent paragraphs for future, more refined drafts.

Objectives

1.    To organize ideas.

2.    To develop internal unity within paragraphs.

Activities

STEP 1

Go through your writing draft quickly and group similar ideas. Label these ideas with A, B, C, etc.; 1, 2, 3, etc.; or with color codes from colored pencils. Any device will do, as long as it groups similar ideas. Remember, don’t put apples with oranges: apples go with other apples and oranges with other ...