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I’m a great believer in researching after you write a preliminary draft of a document, and not before.
This saves time. If you research before you write, you’ll procrastinate. Perhaps the document won’t get written at all, because there’s always something more to research.
Research after you write your preliminary “talking to yourself” draft
Writing is a process: the idea, preliminary draft, research, first draft, re-vision (thinking again), next draft, and final draft.
In a preliminary draft, anything goes. Just get something onto the computer screen. Think of it as talking to yourself: “In this report, I want to show that we’ve increased sales at two of our stores because __________ etc.”
Once you’ve written the preliminary draft, you’ll know exactly what you need to research. If the thought of writing FIRST makes you shudder, that’s just a lack of confidence. Try it, just once, and you’ll always research later, not first. You know much more than you think you do.
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At Write Today, Angela Booth has posted contrarian but intriguing advice on the research step in the business writing process. Do research, she says, after you write. She explains:Once you’ve written the preliminary draft, you’ll know exactly what …