The first revising activity for writing effective paragraphs is to scan your entire draft quickly and look for related ideas. You’ll find that in early freewriting you scatter your ideas more than in the latter stages of writing. This phenomenon is easily explained.
In the beginning, your mind has trouble focusing; thus, your thoughts start, stop, and shift. But once you get started, your thinking and, consequently, your writing seem to settle down into more logical grooves. Some professors tell their students to tear off the first page of their papers before turning in the remaining pages to them. These instructors have discovered that the first page is usually full of unnecessary writing, and they see little sense in reading ...
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