Saturday, November 19, 2016

Working In ‘Passes’

Students may be bewildered by the size of a writing project. The way I go about it -- and advise students to go about it -- is first to get it done.  From there on, I myself work in "passes". I pass through the whole document again with one improvement in mind, then with another improvement in mind, then another, and so on. Sometimes there may be many "passes". One pass may be to close gaps. Another may be to check accuracy. Another to improve flow. Another to fix citations. And so on.

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