After checking your work, the next step of a complete writing process is to redraft.

What is redrafting?

As mentioned, a draft is a version of your writing in paragraph form. It takes time to generate the final paper, which means it is a continual process of writing, editing, getting feedback, and refining your work. Also, write more than one draft of your work in that this process will allow you to break down the task and make it more manageable. Furthermore, one can improve the writing skills by seeking and responding to feedback, which will benefit both the current assignment but also future ones.

How does redraft work?

How your redraft will depend in part on whether or not the work has been checked by a professor or peer student.

Whether your work has been checked by someone else or by yourself, your next task should be to identify the major problems which you need to work on. Although you might want to work on everything, this may not always be possible, and focusing on the main problems will help you make the greatest improvement to your work. Remember that at this stage of the writing process, you should be working on the 'bigger' aspects of the task, namely content and organisation. This means areas such as supporting ideas and references to sources (for content) and thesis statement, topic sentences and transition signals (for organisation). You should avoid focusing on the 'smaller' aspects of the task such as grammar, spelling and punctuation, as these are only dealt with at the end, when proofreading.f