This document discusses drafting and revising documents by focusing first on global concerns like content, organization, and style at the paragraph level before addressing local concerns like sentence structure, transitions, language usage, and editing at the sentence level. It encourages writers to think big initially, visualize their ideas, just start drafting, and then refine their work by addressing lower-order stylistic concerns.

1. Drafting and Revising
Global and Local Concerns

2. Early Drafts
Think big and let the little things slide

3. Global or Higher-Order Concerns
• Thesis idea
• Content development
• Organization
• Style--paragraph level

4. Generating Ideas
• improvise

5. Visualize Your Ideas
• organize

6. Drafting
• just do it

7. Local or Lower-Order Concerns
• Style--sentence level
• Transitions
• Language
• Complexity
• Editing--grammar and punctuation; spelling