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The first draft

The first words you write are the first draft. Writing is thinking. You'll rarely know what exactly you want to say when you start writing.

The time you put into editing, reworking and refining turns your first draft into a second draft, and then into a third. If you keep refining it over days or weeks or even years, it eventually becomes something great.

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How to Edit Your Own Writing

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How to Write an Essay - The Jordan Peterson Writing Template

Learning how to write an essay is a very difficult task. In school, it's often not taught in any systematic way. Students are left to either find their way by intuition or flounder. To address this problem, Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor at The University of Toronto, created a template for his students that takes them step by step through the detailed process of writing an essay.

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nking makes you act effectively in the world. Thinking makes you win the battles you undertake...If you can thi..."

Jordan Peterson

The Levels of Resolution

An essay exists at multiple levels:

The choice of words
The formation of sentences
The arrangement of sentences in a paragraph
The arrangement of paragraphs in a logical progression, beginning to end
The essay as a whole

A good essay works at every one of those levels simultaneously.

Step 1: Choose Topic, Read & Take Notes

Writing begins with these 3 steps:

Pick a topic: because your essay should answer a central question.
Make a reading list: You should aim to read 5-10 books before you write an essay. And plenty of online sources.
Take Notes: of everything that catches your attention.

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Brian

@bri_31

Writing Is Thinking

When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you're contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, not born. We often hear from people who say they'd love to write for A List Apart or start blogging, but don't know where to start.

alistapart.com

Writing is intimidating. There’s this expectation of artful precision, mercurial grammatical rules, and the weird angst that comes with writing for other people. You start with a tidy nu...

Writing is Deliberate

Choosing the words to describe your work means you’re doing it on purpose.

You’re going on the record as someone who thinks about why they do what they do, and understands how each decision affects the results. And developing this knack for critical thinking will also make you better at what you do.

Brielle

@brielle49

10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Business Writing Skills

Stop and think about how many emails you write each day at work. According to a study conducted by Carleton University, professionals spend one-third of their time at work reading and answering emails. You might spend more than this, or less, but chances are, a significant portion of your day is spent writing something.

moneycrashers.com

The value of solid writing skills

Being a good writer helps you stand out from the crowd.
Repeated writing mistakes affect your reputation and credibility in the future.
Your writing is ...

Kurt Vonnegut

t;Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you’re writing.<

The “5 Ws + H” method

... for establishing what and how you will write:

Who: Who is my audience?
What: What do they need to know?
When: When does this apply, when did this happen, or when do they need to know it by?
Where: Where is this happening?
Why: Why do they need this information?
How: How should they use this information?

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