Imagening a Final Draft

                   Review the brief reminders below.
                You may be well on your way to a solid draft.

                You have probably grown your meaning and begun to specify it to yourself. Good for you. Your thoughtful efforts are giving you a good chance to complete some powerfully effective writing. 

                You have reached the point where at it is time to consider the steps to take to complete a great draft. Now can be the time to move forward toward publishing a darn good piece. 

                Calmly consider the foll0wing suggestions:

A: Now you are likely to have written that from which you can coax some true coherence. Great! From here you can complete this draft and begin the next one.

B: Take some time to see that our main meaning is clear to you.

C: Let yourself do some growing and cooking.

D: Sum up that which you have written into a genuine assertion central to what you have to say. Perfection is not necessary, but do remember that your assertion must assert that which can be quarreled with. Done? You may be more than half way to a fine finished work.

E: You can let yourself reconsider an outline or overall plan. It may not be necessary, but it could be a useful consideration.

                You are well on your way to submitting a meaningful piece of work to publish. You can be nearly ready to put your name to a good post or essay. Congratulations!

                Keep writing.

                                                                                                            rcs

Writing About Another Blogger's Work

 Write With RCS: Posting to, on, and about another blogger's posts. It's the Bloggers' Code.

 

 In posting about another blogger's post I hope to do most of the following so as to look good and to have a positive effect on post readers, blogs, blogging, writing and humanity:

1. Provide a bit more evidence and documentation for my assertions than I have in the past.

2.List important references and bibliographic items.

3. Name my post or response in a way useful to the reader. 

4. Name the author I am responding to.

5. Name the particular Writing of that author to which I am responding.

6. Give my response to the bloggers actual presentation.

7. Consider and evaluate the bloggers evidence.

8. Make my response appropriately clear and brief.

9. Quote the bloggers words in a way which captures the essences of her post.

10. Helpfully identify that to which I reply.

11. Help my readers to understand what I am writing about by identifying the essay, the happening, the question, the experience, the philosophy to which I an responding.

12. Provide information about the writer, translator, editor, compiler, witness. 

13. Place my response and that which I am responding in historical context.

14. Provide some background for the main writer of the post.

15. Provide enough detail and example.

16. Make use of fair and useful quotes of the other blogger.

17. Make an estimate of the level of fact or truth of assertions I mention.

18. In making an argument provide convincing evidence.

19. Give the other blogger's evidence.

20. Evaluate how consistent the other blogger's evidence is with other sources l know.

                                                                                                       RCS