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Five Steps to Completing Your First Draft
Daily Writing Tips
Follow these stages of preparation and production to assemble a first draft of written (or spoken) content.
Identifying your goal for the content will help you shape the piece.
Imagining who your readers are will help you decide what voice and tone to adopt, how formal or informal your language will be — though that factor also depends on your approach (see below) — and how much detail or background information you provide.
Determining your strategy, in combination with identifying your readership, will help you decide how the piece will feel to the reader.
Draft an executive summary or an abstract of the content, or think about how you would describe it to someone in a few sentences. Or draw a diagram or a map of the content.
Using one or more of these strategies will help you populate your content with the information your readers want or need.
Incorporating these building blocks will help you produce a coherent, well-organized piece.
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