MAKING A LIST OF KEY WORDS
Finally, after you’ve highlighted the key ideas in your zero-base draft, list them on a separate piece of paper. If you put all the A’s together, then all the B’s, and so on, this list will become your working outline, your stepping-stone to the next stage of writing. Does that mean you must stick to this initial list? No. You’ll revise this working outline as you continue to collect new ideas and information. It simply gives you a base on which to start adding new information or from which to slice away old, unworkable ideas.
Surveying forces you to review and account for what you’ve written, and to begin structuring your writing. Notice that before surveying you spent most of the time producing ideas. Now, you have ...
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