How to Write a Draft

Drafting your paper involves writing an introduction that includes your tentative focus or thesis
and developing good paragraphs that logically link together to explain the supporting points of your thesis.

Keep your audience and your organizational plan in mind. Be sure to give your reader all the necessary information;
do not make the reader guess what you are trying to say. Your conclusion is often a summary and should not include any new ideas.

The links below have more Internet resources about the drafting stage of your writing project.

Writing an introduction
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/introductions.html

http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/17_Writing_Introduction.asp


Developing good paragraphs
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/paragraphs.html

http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/jonsmith/evidence.html


Logically linking paragraphs
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/transitions.html

http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/middle.htm#links

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/574/01/


Keeping audience in mind
http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/handouts/audience.html

http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/processes/audmod/pop2c.cfm


Conclusion
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/conclusions.html