Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing Poorly: The One-Draft Wonder...
...Happy Hacker recommends printing out rough drafts and then making written changes on them. Writing is a process that constantly improves itself. Every time a draft is revised, the overall paper is improved. Simply modifying on the computer screen is not the same as having a printed copy to work with--at least not for a true literary hacker who knows the importance of physically (i.e., with a pen) altering draft after draft. A literary hacker, of course, should be distinguished from a literary hack: a person who happily churns out one-draft wonders...
Usually, if a paper is retyped close to the final draft, it can improve flow and remove awkwardness. This process is especially useful in creative writing (as opposed to argumentative essays). The improved quality obtained by constant revision is probably the reason most novelists still...
Chris Biotti, another defenseman, is just big. He's 6-ft., 2-in. and weighs 200 lbs. He has an aura of his own because he was drafted in the first round of the NHL draft by the Calgary Flames. He's a pro, and he's playing for Harvard...
...weeks later, on August 6, in the Kenesset, the Israeli parliament, socialist legislators voted against an anti-racism law that they themselves had proposed earlier. The final version of the law was very different from the original draft. The religious parties forced through a more lenient version because the old text conflicted with parts of the Jewish Law that prohibit marriages between Jews and non-Jews...